Everything about Manhattan Melodrama totally explained
Manhattan Melodrama is a
1934 crime melodrama film, produced by
MGM Pictures.
It was
directed by
W. S. Van Dyke and starred
Clark Gable,
William Powell,
Myrna Loy,
Leo Carrillo,
Nat Pendleton, and
Isabel Jewell. The movie also provided one of the earliest film roles for
Mickey Rooney who played the Gable character as a child.
Filmed relatively quickly and with a modest budget,
Manhattan Melodrama was expected to return a profit, but not to capture the imagination of the public. Its success surprised the studio and made stars of
Myrna Loy and
William Powell in the first of their fourteen screen pairings. It also solidified the success of MGM's most popular male lead, Clark Gable, who had recently appeared in
It Happened One Night, the film which would win him his only
Academy Award for Best Actor.
The movie entered the lexicon of history when the notorious gangster John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents after leaving a Chicago theater where the film was playing. Myrna Loy was among those who expressed distaste at the studio's willingness to exploit this event for the financial benefit of the film.
Arthur Caesar won an
Academy Award for Best Story for this film.
Plot
The film starts with two boys, Blackie Gallagher and Jim Wade who become firm friends through adversity. As adults, Gallagher (Gable) and Wade (Powell) take entirely different career paths. While the exuberant Gallagher has become a
racketeer, the more studious Wade has become a
District Attorney. Although at odds with each other, the two understand and respect each other. When Wade meets Eleanor (Loy) and marries her, Gallagher also falls in love with her, but the friendship between the two men prevails. Wade's career rises and he becomes
Governor, but Gallagher
murders a rival for Wade's office. Convicted of murder, Gallagher is
sentenced to death, and as Governor, Wade has the power to commute his sentence. In the final scenes, Wade visits Gallagher in prison but Gallagher rejects Wade's suggestions and accepts his fate. The film ends with Wade resigning from the office of governor after revealing how he won the election.
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