Manhattan Melodrama 1934

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: One finds a mechanical plot which is scarcely worthy of the cast, which includes Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Leo Carrillo. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This 1934 feature was the last movie John Dillinger saw before being gunned down outside the Biograph, and he might have had better luck on both counts. Read more

TIME Magazine: Well directed by W. S. Van Dyke, superbly photographed by famed Chinese Cinematographer James Wong Howe, Manhattan Melodrama is first-rate cinema, chiefly important because it marks the elevation to stardom of Myrna Loy. Read more

Time Out: This is an archetypal gangster movie of the period, a product of the moral backlash instigated by Hoover and the Hays Office. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Apart from the Clark Gable-William Powell stellar duo and Myrna Loy, who does an excellent job as the principal femme, the Arthur Caesar story is replete with punchy popularly-appealing ingredients. Read more