The Great O’Malley

Year: 1937

Runtime: 71 mins

Language: English

Director: William Dieterle

Drama

A bleak drama set in 1930s New York follows a callous police sergeant whose harsh actions entangle an out‑of‑work factory worker (Humphrey Bogart) and his ailing daughter. Their suffering forces a stubborn Irish cop (Pat O’Brien) to confront his own loyalties and the limits of justice, probing corruption, poverty and the possibility of redemption amid a grim urban landscape.

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