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
Jay Eaton
Drunk (uncredited)
John Marston
Mr. Coates (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan
Yacht Captain Swenson (uncredited)
Leo Carrillo
Father Joe
Lew Harvey
Craps Dealer (uncredited)
William Stack
Judge (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Policeman (uncredited)
Isabelle Keith
Miss Adams
Shirley Ross
Singer in Cotton Club
Sam McDaniel
Black Prisoner on Death Row (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Bailiff (uncredited)
William Powell
Jim Wade
Myrna Loy
Eleanor Packer
William Bailey
Al Barnes (uncredited)
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
Uncle Angus (uncredited)
George Irving
Jim's Campaign Manager (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Detective in Court (uncredited)
Oscar Apfel
Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
Al Thompson
Street Spectator (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Otto (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Stanley Taylor
Police Intern (uncredited)
Noel Madison
Manny Arnold
Mickey Rooney
Blackie as a Boy
Nat Pendleton
Spud
Muriel Evans
Tootsie Malone
Donald Haines
Young Spud (uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Policeman in Court (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Clark Gable
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
Frank Conroy
Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)
George Sidney
Poppa Rosen
Jimmy Butler
Jim Wade as a Boy
Charles R. Moore
Black Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
Thomas E. Jackson
Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow
Leonid Kinskey
Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
Don Brodie
Reporter (uncredited)
Pete Smith
Racetrack Announcer (Voice) (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
Inspector (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
Policeman (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds
Warden of Sing Sing (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Pat Moriarity
Trotsky Heckler (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
Killer in Prison (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Boat Passenger (uncredited)
William Irving
German Note Holder (uncredited)
Isabel Jewell
Annabelle
Curtis Benton
Announcer (uncredited)
John Bleifer
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Bert Sprotte
German Note Holder (uncredited)