Fresh
Apart from the Clark Gable-William Powell stellar duo and Myrna Loy, who does an excellent job as the principal femme, the Arthur Caesar story is replete with punchy popularly-appealing ingredients.
Variety Staff, Variety
Manhattan Melodrama
RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!
1934 · 1h 33m · NOT RATED
Crime, Drama, Romance
Directed by
W.S. Van Dyke
Overview
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Director and cast
- W.S. Van Dyke Director
- Clark Gable as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
- William Powell as Jim Wade
- Myrna Loy as Eleanor Packer
- Leo Carrillo as Father Joe
- Nat Pendleton as Spud
- George Sidney as Poppa Rosen
- Isabel Jewell as Annabelle
- Muriel Evans as Tootsie Malone
- Thomas E. Jackson as Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow
- Isabelle Keith as Miss Adams
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Rotten
One finds a mechanical plot which is scarcely worthy of the cast, which includes Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Leo Carrillo.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Rotten
This 1934 feature was the last movie John Dillinger saw before being gunned down outside the Biograph, and he might have had better luck on both counts.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
TIME Magazine
Fresh
This is an archetypal gangster movie of the period, a product of the moral backlash instigated by Hoover and the Hays Office.
Time Out
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