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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Crime | 93 minutes
3,17 29 votes

Genre: Crime / Drama

Duration: 93 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy

IMDb score: 7,1 (4.894)

Releasedate: 4 May 1934

Manhattan Melodrama plot

"RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!"

Two small children are orphaned when their parents die in a shipwreck. They grow up together. When they are adults, each follows his own path. Jim Wade (Powell) becomes a magistrate and Blackie Gallagher (Gable) a casino owner. Gallagher is in the criminal world and his mistress (Loy) begs him to end his criminal life, but he doesn't listen to her.

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Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher

Eleanor Packer

Father Joe

Poppa Rosen

Tootsie Malone

Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow

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BBarbie

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A melodrama, as the title suggests, is the appropriate description for this film about two childhood friends who grow up together and end up on opposite sides of the law. This leads to a number of confrontational situations in which William Powell and Clark Gable can show what they have to offer as actors. That is not small. Add to that an equally good acting Myrna Loy, who moves from one to the other, and you have an excellent psychological drama, culminating in the inner struggle that Powell (partly under pressure from his woman) has to deal with herself as governor on the one hand and as a bosom friend on the other. That the drama is a bit thick here and there and ultimately ends well (as the unwritten Hollywood laws of the time more or less prescribed) did not prevent me from enjoying this film very much.

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clubsport

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The court part is fascinating with good acting and interesting on a moral level , the build up to it is unfortunately less , especially the plot in which one goes on the crime path and the other chooses the right path .

The depth of the characters and their choices remain superficial or are given too little time.

All in all a good drama thanks to the good play between the three .

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