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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.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.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.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total
Thomas E. Jackson
- Richard Snow
- (as Thomas Jackson)
Isabelle Keith
- Miss Adams
- (as Claudelle Kaye)
Oscar Apfel
- Speaker of Assembly
- (uncredited)
William Arnold
- Blackjack Dealer
- (uncredited)
William Augustin
- Detective
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Jack Conway(retakes) (uncredited)
- George Cukor(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaThe opening scenes depict the General Slocum disaster on the morning of June 15, 1904. The popular excursion steamer caught fire in New York's East River while transporting passengers to a picnic organized by St. Mark's Evangelical German Lutheran Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With an estimated 1,021 fatalities, mostly women and children, this was New York City's single worst tragedy, in terms of lives lost, before 9/11. An incompetent, inexperienced crew was held primarily to blame for the tragedy.
- GoofsIn the cheering New York City crowds on Jim Wade's election night, supposedly in November 1925, theatre marquees are promoting 1933 films, including MGM's Dinner at Eight (1933) and Bombshell (1933) with Michael Strogoff (1910).
- Quotes
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher: Die the way you lived, all of a sudden, that's the way to go. Don't drag it out.
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935)
Featured review
You don't gotta believe it. You do gotta like it.
Clark Gable plays a really sweet, caring guy who just happens to be a top mobster and cold-blooded killer. William Powell, less than month before his first appearance as wealthy gumshoe Nick Charles in "The Thin Man," is the uncorruptible Manhattan DA who saved Gable's life when they were kids. And Myrna Loy, less than a month before she first appeared as wealthy gumshoe-ette Nora Charles, is the Woman Who Loves Them Both.
Gable finds himself in a quandary: should he let old buddy Powell lose the big election over a dirty lie? Or should he risk the chair to help him?
Decisions, decisions.
How times have changed: a chiseler who's borrowed a bundle from Gable pleads, "I thought I could pay, Blackie! But I ain't got the dough! Please lemme have just a little more time! A couple more days!"
Gable snarls, "I'll give you more time! You got two months! You'll pay then...or else!"
Wow! Two months with no penalty! You can't a get a deal like that from your own bank! That's the kind of movie this is.
So how can it be as good as it is? Gable, Loy, and Powell. Like so many old-time stars, G and P learned early on how to play just one character each (let's call them Rhett and Nick) and they played them to perfection till they quit making movies. Loy was a little more flexible (check out The Best Years of Our Lives), but here she is, Nora Charles before "Nora" was even born.
Nat Pendleton plays one of his trademark goons, and in a small role the Harlowesque Muriel Evans shines, almost literally, as Tootsie.
Gable finds himself in a quandary: should he let old buddy Powell lose the big election over a dirty lie? Or should he risk the chair to help him?
Decisions, decisions.
How times have changed: a chiseler who's borrowed a bundle from Gable pleads, "I thought I could pay, Blackie! But I ain't got the dough! Please lemme have just a little more time! A couple more days!"
Gable snarls, "I'll give you more time! You got two months! You'll pay then...or else!"
Wow! Two months with no penalty! You can't a get a deal like that from your own bank! That's the kind of movie this is.
So how can it be as good as it is? Gable, Loy, and Powell. Like so many old-time stars, G and P learned early on how to play just one character each (let's call them Rhett and Nick) and they played them to perfection till they quit making movies. Loy was a little more flexible (check out The Best Years of Our Lives), but here she is, Nora Charles before "Nora" was even born.
Nat Pendleton plays one of his trademark goons, and in a small role the Harlowesque Muriel Evans shines, almost literally, as Tootsie.
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- Aug 12, 2009
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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