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Jul. 14, 2023
Stream It Tonight! "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934)
This dramatic movie illustrates the competing cultural currents that Prohibition spawned. It was released about a year after Prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
W hy watch? A prosecutor puts the gangster who is his lifelong best friend on trial for murder.
Jim Wade (William Powell) and Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) have been best friends since childhood. Wade becomes a district attorney who is committed to ending Prohibition-era lawlessness. Gallagher however has turned into a vicious bootlegger and racketee...
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