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RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!
RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised the...
Crime, Drama, Romance - 1934
Manhattan Melodrama
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7.1
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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:
,
W.S. Van Dyke
Cast:
,
Clark Gable
,
Myrna Loy
,
William Powell
,
Nat Pendleton
,
Isabel Jewell
,
Leo Carrillo
,
Thomas E. Jackson
,
Isabelle Keith
,
Muriel Evans
,
George Sidney

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Rated:
Approved
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
4 May 1934
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 4 wins total

Top Critics Reviews

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,
26 Mar 2009
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,
8 Aug 2006
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,
10 Jan 2004
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,
26 Jul 2010
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,
9 Feb 2006
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