Manhattan Melodrama

Old pal and gangster Blackie (Clark Gable) visits the new D-A Jim (William Powell), with lots of catching-up to do, in W.S. Van Dyke's Manhattan Melodrama, 1934, from a script by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Oliver H.P. Garrett.

Opening titles for the remarkable talent behind MGM's Manhattan Melodrama, 1934, and the introduction of young Blackie (Mickey Rooney!) and Jim (Jimmy Butler.)

Blackie (Clark Gable) offs a guy (Thomas Jackson) in the men's room at Madison Square Garden (an MGM set, not the location, in a scene also featured in Michael Mann's Public Enemies, 2009) in Manhattan Melodrama, 1934.

Eleanor (Myrna Loy) tells gambler Blackie (Clark Gable) about her night out with their respectable pal Jim in the MGM hit Manhattan Melodrama, 1934.

Blackie (Clark Gable) is more than philosophical when now-governor pal Jim (William Powell) and Father Joe (Leo Carrillo) come to visit him pre-execution in Manhattan Melodrama, 1934.

Clark Gable and William Powell are boyhood friends who grow up on opposite sides of the law in Manhattan Melodrama (1934).