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• Bit Player

  • Victor Brown
  • 1/11/13

  If you saw the 1991 film Bugsy, starring Warren Beatty and Annette Benning, you should recall that one scene in Manpower was parodied in that film. In the scene where George Raft battles with the goons in the clip joint/nightclub, the woman who Raft was supposed to have handed a piece of a chair after he had bashed one of the goons with it, was supposed to have been played by Virginia Hill, the "moll" of real-life gangster Bugsy Siegal.

• Manpower - High Tension Drama

  • Bruce Reber
  • 9/1/11

  "Manpower" (Warner Bros. 1941) is a tough, solid story about two power company linemen falling for a sexy-sultry nightclub diva, starring two of WB's top male stars, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft, and Marlene Dietrich in only one of two films she made at WB. You can feel the electricity between these three great stars, and it's as intense as the power going through the high-tension wires they work on. One of EGR's best.

• Manpower (1941)

  • James Higgins
  • 3/5/10

  Edward G. Robinson always puts in a 100% effort to every performance. He always lifts up a film. This is a routine story, made considerably better by the terrific cast. Eve Arden scores in an early supporting role, but Marlene Dietrich seems a little out of place. Great pace, good photography. A solid crime drama.

• manpower best movie

  • william
  • 3/23/07

  need to show this movie on prime time

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