Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

1 Oscar gewonnen
- 4 wins total

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Clark Gable

Blackie Gallagher

William Powell

Jim Wade

Myrna Loy

Eleanor

Leo Carrillo

Father Joe

Nat Pendleton

Spud

George Sidney

Poppa Rosen

Isabel Jewell

Annabelle

Muriel Evans

Tootsie Malone

Thomas E. Jackson

Richard Snow
(as Thomas Jackson)

Isabelle Keith

Miss Adams
(as Claudelle Kaye)

Frank Conroy

Defense Attorney

Noel Madison

Manny Arnold

Jimmy Butler

Jim - as a Boy

Mickey Rooney

Blackie - as a Boy

Shirley Ross

Singer in Cotton Club

Oscar Apfel

Speaker of Assembly
(Nicht genannt)

William Arnold

Blackjack Dealer
(Nicht genannt)

William Augustin

Detective
(Nicht genannt)

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The opening scenes depict the General Slocum disaster on the morning of June 15, 1904. The popular excursion steamer caught fire in New York's East River while transporting passengers to a picnic organized by St. Mark's Evangelical German Lutheran Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With an estimated 1,021 fatalities, mostly women and children, this was New York City's single worst tragedy, in terms of lives lost, before 9/11. An incompetent, inexperienced crew was held primarily to blame for the tragedy.

Patzer
In the cheering New York City crowds on Jim Wade's election night, supposedly in November 1925, theatre marquees are promoting 1933 films, including MGM's Dinner um acht (1933) and Sexbombe (1933) with Michael Strogoff (1910).

Zitate
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher: Die the way you lived, all of a sudden, that's the way to go. Don't drag it out.

Alternative Versionen
Also available in a computer colorized version.

Verbindungen
Featured in David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935)

Soundtracks
Agitato Nos.1 & 2
(uncredited)
Music by William Axt and Erno Rapee

They didn't name this "Manhatten *Melodrama* for nothing - it's classic melodrama! If you can get past the first fifteen minutes or so, what saves this film is the three leads: William Powell, Clark Gable, and Myrna Loy. As a Myrna Loy/William Powell fan, I love the whole scene from their first meeting, as she flings herself into his taxi, and he thinks she is out to wreck his career by pretending he assaulted her! Clark Gable is great as the charming bad guy, too. Of course, in this story about unpunished crime vs. betraying a friend, nobody ever considers the third way, but then it wouldn't be a melodrama anymore, would it? Anyway, if you enjoy golden oldies or any of the three main actors, it's worth watching.