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Friday, September 18, 2009

Manhattan Melodrama - RS & Pando

IMDB User Rating:6.9/10

Awards:Won Oscar
Director:W.S. Van Dyke
Genre:Crime | Drama | Romance
Plot:Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. When Blackie's girlfriend Eleanor leaves him and marries the more down to earth Wade, Blackie harbors no resentment. In fact, their friendship is so strong that Blackie murders an attorney threatening to derail Wade's bid to become Governor. The morally straight Wade's last job as D.A. is to convict his friend of the murder, and send him to the electric chair. After he becomes Governor, Wade has the authority to commute Blackie's death sentence-- a decision that pits his high moral ethics against a lifelong friendship.

Manhattan Melodrama is the first of the fourteen movies that starred Myrna Loy & William Powell.

CAST
Clark Gable ... Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
William Powell ... James W. 'Jim' Wade
Myrna Loy ... Eleanor Packer
Leo Carrillo ... Father Joe
Nat Pendleton ... Spud 'Spuddie'
George Sidney ... Poppa Rosen
Isabel Jewell ... Annabelle
Muriel Evans ... Tootsie Malone
Thomas E. Jackson ... Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow (as Thomas Jackson)
Isabelle Keith ... Miss Adams (Jim's secretary) (as Claudelle Kaye)
Frank Conroy ... Blackie's defense attorney
Noel Madison ... Manny Arnold
Jimmy Butler ... Jim Wade as a boy
Mickey Rooney ... Blackie as a boy
Shirley Ross ... Singer in Cotton Club

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025464/

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