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