Manhattan Melodrama News

There is perhaps no movie duo more enduring or loveable than that of William Powell and Myrna Loy, made famous and best known as Nick and Nora Charles in the Thin Man series.

Storyline: In Depression-era America, amid the rising wave of organised crime and an increasingly-organised FBI, John Dillinger's is one of the last, doomed, romantic gangster stories.

On his way to the electric chair in the 1934 gangster movie "Manhattan Melodrama," Clark Gable's doomed character encourages a fellow prison inmate to "die like you live - " all of a sudden." All of a sudden is the way state Sen.

Tuesday marks the 75th anniversary of the day John Dillinger was gunned down in the alley outside the Biograph Theatre.

John Dillinger was gunned down by federal agents exactly 75 years ago Wednesday evening, outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.

Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2009. There are 162 days left in the year.

I T IS well known that the last movie John Dillinger watched was Woody Van Dyke's fine, compact Manhattan Melodrama .

The very public slaying of legendary bank robber John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre in 1934 is as much a moment in the history of film as American crime.

If you can watch this face of "gangster-glamour" for almost two and a half hours, you'll probably enjoy Public Enemies.

Art imitates life in "Public Enemies" when Johnny Depp, as John Dillinger, watches Clark Gable play a doomed gangster in "Manhattan Melodrama," just before being gunned down himself outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre.

Editor's note: This is a P-I Reader Blog. P-I Reader Blogs are not written or edited by the P-I. They are written by readers, for readers.

In " Public Enemies ," which opens today, we see a movie rarity: people in a movie actually going to a movie.

I've never been the kind of cineaste who cares much about the technical side of cinema: aspect ratios and film stocks and whether something was shot in 35mm or 70mm or whatever.

Johnny Depp stars as John Dillinger in Public Enemies. Film Review: Public Enemies Two pivotal scenes in Public Enemies take place in movie theatres.

A Myrna Loy sandwich between the moustachioed Clark Gable and William Powell. According to Michael Mann's Public Enemies , it was FBI agent Melvin Purvis who set the trap that caught notorious bankrobber John Dillinger .

Johnny Depp is the latest actor to jump into a getaway car when "Public Enemies" opens Wednesday.

Introducing our special issue, John Patterson meets Public Enemies director Michael Mann and hears where John Dillinger's 'white-hot trajectory' fits into his macho career Michael Mann is talking about the last two hours of John Dillinger's life, as the infamous and charismatic midwestern bank-robber sat in the Biograph movie theatre in Chicago, ...

Myrna Loy starts out as Clark Gable's mistress, ends up as William Powell's wife.

The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.