Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

7.1/10 93 min Crime Drama Romance

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.

Cast

Clark Gable

Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher

William Powell

Jim Wade

Myrna Loy

Eleanor Packer

Leo Carrillo

Father Joe

Nat Pendleton

Spud

George Sidney

Poppa Rosen

Isabel Jewell

Annabelle

Muriel Evans

Tootsie Malone

Thomas E. Jackson

Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow

Isabelle Keith

Miss Adams

Noel Madison

Manny Arnold

Jimmy Butler

Jim Wade as a Boy

Mickey Rooney

Blackie as a Boy

Shirley Ross

Singer in Cotton Club

Donald Haines

Young Spud (uncredited)

Frank Conroy

Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)

Leonid Kinskey

Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen

Oscar Apfel

Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)

William Bailey

Al Barnes (uncredited)

Curtis Benton

Announcer (uncredited)

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