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One of the more dramatic cases of GenreAdultery on record, as this hard-bitten crime drama was directed by none other than Creator/BusbyBerkeley, better known as the director and choreographer of [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate, fantastical musical numbers]] in musical comedies like ''Film/FortySecondStreet'' and ''Film/FootlightParade''. Apparently Creator/WarnerBros gave him the gig to keep him at the studio; if so it failed, as Berkeley left for Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer right after completing this film.
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One of the more dramatic cases of GenreAdultery CreatorsOddball on record, as this hard-bitten crime drama was directed by none other than Creator/BusbyBerkeley, better known as the director and choreographer of [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate, fantastical musical numbers]] in musical comedies like ''Film/FortySecondStreet'' and ''Film/FootlightParade''. Apparently Creator/WarnerBros gave him the gig to keep him at the studio; if so it failed, as Berkeley left for Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer right after completing this film.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the earlier film ''The Life of Jimmy Dolan'', Jimmy actually does kill the reporter, although it's by accident: Jimmy punches the reporter, who falls down, his head slamming on the spiked grates of a fireplace. This film was made after UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was enforced so criminals getting off the hook in any way was not allowed. Therefore it's the manager, Doc, who kills the reporter and lets Johnny take the rap.
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Garfield plays Johnnie Bradfield, a rather sleazy champion boxer who projects an air of all-American wholesomeness while actually enjoying liquor and women. When Johnnie's rather unsavory habits are about to be exposed by a reporter, Johnnie's manager Doc confronts the reporter, and accidentally kills him. The manager and Johnnie's girlfriend Goldie frame him for murder--and are promptly killed in a car wreck.
Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at the Rafferty farm, a date farm that also serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan (Rains) can't be escaped that easily.
Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at the Rafferty farm, a date farm that also serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan (Rains) can't be escaped that easily.
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Garfield plays Johnnie Bradfield, a rather sleazy champion boxer who projects an air of all-American wholesomeness while actually enjoying liquor and women. When Johnnie's rather unsavory habits are about to be exposed by a reporter, Johnnie's manager Doc confronts the reporter, and accidentally kills him. The manager and Johnnie's girlfriend Goldie then frame him Johnnie for murder--and are promptly killed in a car wreck.
Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at the Rafferty farm, a date farm that also serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan(Rains) (Rains), can't be escaped that easily.
Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at the Rafferty farm, a date farm that also serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan
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Not to be confused with the British FilmNoir, ''Film/TheyMadeMeAFugitive''.
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Music/MaxSteiner composed the score. A pre-stardom Ann Sheridan has a small part as Goldie, Johnnie's faithless girlfriend.
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Music/MaxSteiner composed the score. A pre-stardom Ann Sheridan Creator/AnnSheridan has a small part as Goldie, Johnnie's faithless girlfriend.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Johnnie, who is left-handed, is fighting righty until Phelan tells him not to bother, Phelan knows who he is anyway. Johnnie then switches hands and gives a better accounting of himself.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Johnnie, who is left-handed, is fighting righty until righty, and taking a beatdown. Finally Phelan tells him not to bother, Phelan knows who he is anyway. Johnnie then switches hands and gives a better accounting of himself.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Phelan arrives and ruins everything.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Phelan arrives and ruins everything.]]
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* OffIntotheDistanceEnding: Two, as Phelan's train chugs away while Johnnie walks off with one of the delinquents.
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* OffIntotheDistanceEnding: OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Two, as Phelan's train chugs away while Johnnie walks off with one of the delinquents.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: After seeing how much of a difference he's made and seeing how much the kids and his girlfriend love him, Phelan lets Johnnie go.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: After seeing how much of a difference he's made and seeing how much the kids and his girlfriend love him, Phelan lets Johnnie go. Particularly generous in this example as it means Phelan will go back to New York empty-handed and suffer embarrassment in front of his colleagues, and will be stuck in the morgue.
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* OffIntotheDistanceEnding: Two, as Phelan's train chugs away while Johnnie walks off with one of the delinquents.
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* LetOffByTheDetectiveLetOffByTheDetective: After seeing how much of a difference he's made and seeing how much the kids and his girlfriend love him, Phelan lets Johnnie go.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Claude Rains as usual, speaking in his mellifluous London accent, playing a cynical New York cop.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Claude Rains as usual, speaking in his mellifluous London accent, playing a cynical New York cop. Apparently Rains felt he was miscast and Warner Brothers had to threaten him with a suspension to get him to play the part.
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* WillfullyWeakWillfullyWeak: Johnnie knows that Phelan is looking for a left-handed boxer with a distinctive stance. So Johnnie elects to box right-handed. He was a champion in his previous life but he takes a beating fighting righty.
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Music/MaxSteiner composed the score. A pre-stardom Ann Sheridan has a small part as Goldie, Johnnie's faithless girlfriend.
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* {{Delinquents}}: The various young teens from New York City, guilty of crimes like robbery and vandalism, sent out to Arizona to get put back on the straight and narrow.
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* {{Delinquents}}: The various young teens from New York City, guilty of crimes like robbery and vandalism, sent out to Arizona to get put back on the straight and narrow. (They're played by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_End_Kids Dead End Kids]].)
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Johnnie, who is left-handed, is fighting righty until Phelan tells him not to bother, Phelan knows who he is anyway. Johnnie then switches hands and gives a better accounting of himself.
* LetOffByTheDetective
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* TravelMontage: A short one traces Johnnie's route from New York to Arizona, staying in flophouses, as a line appears on a map.
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* TravelMontage: A short one traces Johnnie's route from New York to Arizona, staying in flophouses, as a line appears on a map.map.
* WillfullyWeak
* WillfullyWeak
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Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at a ranch that serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan (Rains) can't be escaped that easily.
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Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at the Rafferty farm, a ranch date farm that also serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan (Rains) can't be escaped that easily.
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* TheMagicPokerEquation: The delinquents rope a spoiled rich kid into a game of poker. The rich kid, who knows nothing about poker, draws a straight. When they trick him into thinking a straight is a bad hand, he draws four more cards, and draws a straight flush.
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* SavingTheOrphanageSavingTheOrphanage: The kids of the Rafferty farm have an idea to start a gas station on the farm, which will provide enough cash to keep the farm afloat. But they need seed money to build the gas pump, which is where Johnnie's boxing skills come in.
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* {{Delinquents}}: The various young teens from New York City, guilty of crimes like robbery and vandalism, sent out to Arizona to get put back on the straight and narrow.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Phelan has been stuck on morgue duty, after it turns out a guy he arrested who was eventually executed turns out to be innocent.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Phelan has been stuck on morgue duty, after it turns out a guy he arrested who was eventually executed turns out to be innocent.innocent.
* TravelMontage: A short one traces Johnnie's route from New York to Arizona, staying in flophouses, as a line appears on a map.
* TravelMontage: A short one traces Johnnie's route from New York to Arizona, staying in flophouses, as a line appears on a map.
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* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: News that Johnnie is wanted for murder hits the newspapers within hours.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: The investigation into the death of the reporter is called a "murder quiz".
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Doc drives his car into a tree and it bursts into dramatic flames.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Averted. Doc crashes a bottle over Charlie the reporter's head, and it kills him.
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Garfield plays Johnnie Bradfield, a rather sleazy champion boxer who projects an air of all-American wholesomeness while actually enjoying liquor and women. When Johnnie's rather unsavory habits are about to be exposed by a reporter, Johnnie's manager confronts the reporter, and accidentally kills him. The manager and Johnnie's wife frame him for murder--and are promptly killed in a car wreck.
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Garfield plays Johnnie Bradfield, a rather sleazy champion boxer who projects an air of all-American wholesomeness while actually enjoying liquor and women. When Johnnie's rather unsavory habits are about to be exposed by a reporter, Johnnie's manager Doc confronts the reporter, and accidentally kills him. The manager and Johnnie's wife girlfriend Goldie frame him for murder--and are promptly killed in a car wreck.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Just to make sure there's no way Johnnie can prove his innocence, his manager and wife are killed in a car wreck shortly after the murder.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Just to make sure there's no way Johnnie can prove his innocence, his manager Doc and wife Goldie are killed in a car wreck shortly after the murder.murder.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "You'd take my watch, my roll, and my girl if you thought you could get away with it," says Johnnie to Doc. That's exactly what Doc does.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "You'd take my watch, my roll, and my girl if you thought you could get away with it," says Johnnie to Doc. That's exactly what Doc does.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Just to make sure there's no way Johnnie can prove his innocence, his manager and wife are killed in a car wreck shortly after the murder.
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* ChekhovsGun: Phelan's comment in the opening sequence about how you can always recognize a man by the way he stands.
* DiabolusExMachina: Just to make sure there's no way Johnnie can prove his innocence, his manager and wife are killed in a car wreck shortly after themurder.murder.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Claude Rains as usual, speaking in his mellifluous London accent, playing a cynical New York cop.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Phelan has been stuck on morgue duty, after it turns out a guy he arrested who was eventually executed turns out to be innocent.
* DiabolusExMachina: Just to make sure there's no way Johnnie can prove his innocence, his manager and wife are killed in a car wreck shortly after the
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Claude Rains as usual, speaking in his mellifluous London accent, playing a cynical New York cop.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Phelan has been stuck on morgue duty, after it turns out a guy he arrested who was eventually executed turns out to be innocent.
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''They Made Me a Criminal'' is a 1939 film starring John Garfield and Creator/ClaudeRains.
Garfield plays Johnnie Bradfield, a rather sleazy champion boxer who projects an air of all-American wholesomeness while actually enjoying liquor and women. When Johnnie's rather unsavory habits are about to be exposed by a reporter, Johnnie's manager confronts the reporter, and accidentally kills him. The manager and Johnnie's wife frame him for murder--and are promptly killed in a car wreck.
Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at a ranch that serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan (Rains) can't be escaped that easily.
One of the more dramatic cases of GenreAdultery on record, as this hard-bitten crime drama was directed by none other than Creator/BusbyBerkeley, better known as the director and choreographer of [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate, fantastical musical numbers]] in musical comedies like ''Film/FortySecondStreet'' and ''Film/FootlightParade''. Apparently Creator/WarnerBros gave him the gig to keep him at the studio; if so it failed, as Berkeley left for Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer right after completing this film.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Just to make sure there's no way Johnnie can prove his innocence, his manager and wife are killed in a car wreck shortly after the murder.
Garfield plays Johnnie Bradfield, a rather sleazy champion boxer who projects an air of all-American wholesomeness while actually enjoying liquor and women. When Johnnie's rather unsavory habits are about to be exposed by a reporter, Johnnie's manager confronts the reporter, and accidentally kills him. The manager and Johnnie's wife frame him for murder--and are promptly killed in a car wreck.
Left with no other alternative Johnnie goes on the lam. He drifts all the way to Arizona, where he finds refuge at a ranch that serves as a reformatory for delinquent teens. Inspired by the kids, Johnnie turns over a new leaf. But his past, in the form of Detective Monty Phelan (Rains) can't be escaped that easily.
One of the more dramatic cases of GenreAdultery on record, as this hard-bitten crime drama was directed by none other than Creator/BusbyBerkeley, better known as the director and choreographer of [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate, fantastical musical numbers]] in musical comedies like ''Film/FortySecondStreet'' and ''Film/FootlightParade''. Apparently Creator/WarnerBros gave him the gig to keep him at the studio; if so it failed, as Berkeley left for Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer right after completing this film.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Just to make sure there's no way Johnnie can prove his innocence, his manager and wife are killed in a car wreck shortly after the murder.
