Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
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Directors
George Cukor, W.S. Van Dyke
Cast
Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton
The story
On June 15, 1904, the steamboat General Slocum catches fire and sinks in New York's East River. Two boys, Blackie Gallagher and Jim Wade, are rescued by a priest, Father Joe, but are orphaned by the disaster. They are taken in by another survivor, Poppa Rosen, who lost his young son in the sinking.
Genres
Crime, crime film, drama film
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