Manhattan Melodrama

May 4, 1934

1h 33m

★ 7.0

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

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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Cosmopolitan Productions

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Manhattan Melodrama Trailers

Cast

Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher

Clark Gable

Jim Wade

William Powell

Eleanor Packer

Myrna Loy

Father Joe

Leo Carrillo

Spud

Nat Pendleton

Poppa Rosen

George Sidney

Annabelle

Isabel Jewell

Tootsie Malone

Muriel Evans

Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow

Thomas E. Jackson

Miss Adams

Isabelle Keith

Manny Arnold

Noel Madison

Jim Wade as a Boy

Jimmy Butler

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