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Name: Manhattan Melodrama
Released: 1934-5-4
Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton

Manhattan Melodrama

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1h 33m
1934

81%

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Academy Award winner Clark Gable stars with William Powell and Myrna Loy in the story of two orphaned brothers who grow up to lead lives on different sides of the law in a Manhattan Melodrama. Gambler Blackie Gallagher (Gable) and his brother, straight arrow attorney Jim Wade (Powell), although pursuing radically different paths in life, remain close. But when Wade marries Gallagher's former girlfriend, Eleanor (Myrna Loy), their lives eventually lead to opposite sides of a courtroom battle. Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story.

Director:

W.S. Van Dyke

Producer:

David O. Selznick

Writer:

Oliver H.P. Garrett, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Art Caesar

Cast:

Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Isabel Jewell, Muriel Evans, Thomas E. Jackson, Isabelle Keith, Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Reviews

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Josephine O'Neill

Makes the modern stuff manneredly anaemic in comparison. And how many films have copied its plot?

The audience suffers quite a long time before. Not recommended.

Audiences will not fail to react emotionally to the intelligent writing of it... Each situation is milked dry, yet never overplayed.

This MGM prestige production, winner of the Original Story Oscar, features its top stars, Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy.

June 22, 2017

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TIME Magazine

Well directed by W. S. Van Dyke, superbly photographed by famed Chinese Cinematographer James Wong Howe, Manhattan Melodrama is first-rate cinema, chiefly important because it marks the elevation to stardom of Myrna Loy.

June 22, 2017

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