Manhattan Melodrama
Boyhood chums remain adult friends although one is a gangster and the other a district attorney.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 8, 2017
- Originally Released: 1934
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Clark Gable, William Powell & Myrna Loy | |
| Performer: | Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Isabel Jewell, Muriel Evans, Thomas E. Jackson, Noel Madison, Shirley Ross, Jimmy Butler & Mickey Rooney | |
| Directed by | W.S. Van Dyke | |
| Edited by | Ben Lewis | |
| Screenplay by | Oliver H.P. Garrett & Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
| Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons | |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick | |
| Director of Photography: | James Wong Howe |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/4 --
A splendid example of 1930s hardboiled melodrama.
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TV Guide
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.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
The drama may be clunky and old-fashioned, but once Melodrama gets rolling, it never stops engaging the viewer.
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DVDTalk.com
Audiences will not fail to react emotionally to the intelligent writing of it... Each situation is milked dry, yet never overplayed.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: B --
This MGM prestige production, winner of the Original Story Oscar, features its top stars, Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: B- --
Noted as the last movie John Dillinger ever saw.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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.
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TIME Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 32,872
- UPC: 888574513634
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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