Manhattan Melodrama
RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!
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
Trailer
Cast
Lee Phelps
Bailiff (uncredited)
Isabelle Keith
Miss Adams
Pat Moriarity
Trotsky Heckler (uncredited)
George Irving
Jim's Campaign Manager (uncredited)
Stanley Taylor
Police Intern (uncredited)
Nat Pendleton
Spud
Noel Madison
Manny Arnold
Don Brodie
Reporter (uncredited)
Pete Smith
Racetrack Announcer (Voice) (uncredited)
Jimmy Butler
Jim Wade as a Boy
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
Uncle Angus (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel
Black Prisoner on Death Row (uncredited)
Myrna Loy
Eleanor Packer
Shirley Ross
Singer in Cotton Club
Curtis Benton
Announcer (uncredited)
Al Thompson
Street Spectator (uncredited)
John Marston
Mr. Coates (uncredited)
William Powell
Jim Wade
Thomas E. Jackson
Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow
John Bleifer
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Oscar Apfel
Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan
Yacht Captain Swenson (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
Policeman (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Drunk (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds
Warden of Sing Sing (uncredited)
Isabel Jewell
Annabelle
Donald Haines
Young Spud (uncredited)
Frank Conroy
Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Lew Harvey
Craps Dealer (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Detective in Court (uncredited)
Leonid Kinskey
Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
William Bailey
Al Barnes (uncredited)
Mickey Rooney
Blackie as a Boy
Wade Boteler
Prison Guard (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
Killer in Prison (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
Black Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
Inspector (uncredited)
Muriel Evans
Tootsie Malone
Vernon Dent
Otto (uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Policeman in Court (uncredited)
George Sidney
Poppa Rosen
Lee Shumway
Policeman (uncredited)
Clark Gable
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
Leo Carrillo
Father Joe
Mary Gordon
Boat Passenger (uncredited)
William Irving
German Note Holder (uncredited)
Bert Sprotte
German Note Holder (uncredited)
William Stack
Judge (uncredited)