Manhattan Melodrama

1934 · 93 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 5,012 VOTES · DIR. W.S. Van Dyke

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Overview

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,442 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:49 (PEOPLE CHATTERING)
00:06:33 My mother and father and Blackie's mother, they...
00:11:32 I can afford to be a chump.
00:15:34 You're going to win somebody's mother some night in a crap game
00:18:39 who was playing with a great big box of matches
00:21:34 and everybody knows that. And that's what pays off in the end.
00:24:23 Big shot or a penny-ante chiseler.
00:26:57 Of course you have.
00:31:35 Blackie, did you ever figure ahead any further than 15 minutes?
00:35:39 Hello, Blackie. This is Tootsie.
00:39:49 (GUN FIRES)
00:43:21 the police found it in room 14 B at the Uptown Hotel
00:45:59 Well, I gotta beat it.
00:49:23 Completely but...
00:53:05 Snow, in all the years I've worked with you
00:56:08 He's a cinch.
00:59:11 - Only us. - What do you want?
01:02:45 Well, what about you? It's your life.
01:06:50 could not have been more complete
01:10:49 Edward J. Gallagher, the judgment of the court is that you
01:14:22 No one can be more conscious than I am of my present position here.
01:18:40 I don't think you could, Jim.
01:23:29 We won't go into that.
01:27:35 ladies and gentlemen of the Assembly and the Senate.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,442
Dialogue density15.5 lines / min
First line00:01:49
Final line01:27:35

Production Record

DirectorW.S. Van Dyke
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes5,012