Manhattan Melodrama
Crime
Drama
Romance
RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!
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.
1934-05-04
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Cast
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
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
Noel Madison as Manny Arnold
Jimmy Butler as Jim Wade as a Boy
Mickey Rooney as Blackie as a Boy
Shirley Ross as Singer in Cotton Club
Donald Haines as Young Spud (uncredited)
Frank Conroy as Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Leonid Kinskey as Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
Oscar Apfel as Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
William Bailey as Al Barnes (uncredited)
Curtis Benton as Announcer (uncredited)
John Bleifer as Chauffeur (uncredited)
Vernon Dent as Otto (uncredited)
Jay Eaton as Drunk (uncredited)
John Marston as Mr. Coates (uncredited)
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson as Uncle Angus (uncredited)
Lew Harvey as Craps Dealer (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds as Warden of Sing Sing (uncredited)
Wade Boteler as Prison Guard (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel as Black Prisoner on Death Row (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins as Killer in Prison (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore as Black Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
Don Brodie as Reporter (uncredited)
George Irving as Jim's Campaign Manager (uncredited)
Pete Smith as Racetrack Announcer (Voice) (uncredited)
Al Thompson as Street Spectator (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan as Yacht Captain Swenson (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon as Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Mary Gordon as Boat Passenger (uncredited)
William Irving as German Note Holder (uncredited)
Bert Sprotte as German Note Holder (uncredited)
William Stack as Judge (uncredited)
Lee Phelps as Bailiff (uncredited)
Landers Stevens as Inspector (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone as Detective in Court (uncredited)
Tom McGuire as Policeman in Court (uncredited)
Jack Kenney as Policeman (uncredited)
Lee Shumway as Policeman (uncredited)
Stanley Taylor as Police Intern (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan as Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)