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Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language
1934 · 93 mins · English
Directed by
W.S. Van Dyke
Starring
Mickey Rooney, Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Nat Pendleton, William Powell, William Bailey

One orphan becomes a reckless charmer, pursuing and seducing women without promise, always escaping consequence. The other takes a lawful path. Despite their diverging lives on opposite sides of the law, their bond survives, even as both fall in love with the same woman, testing their loyalty.

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