They Made Me a Criminal
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Title: They Made Me a Criminal Summary: A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk. Directed by: Busby Berkeley Actors: John Garfield, Claude Rains, The Dead End Kids Production Company: Warner Bros. Release Date: 28 January 1939 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1 Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Running away from New York, he ends up in a ranch in Arizona, run by an old lady as a work farm for delinquent teenagers. He falls in love with Peggy and became the teenagers' hero. But there is that New York Detective, Phelan, that does not believe he is dead and is chasing him... An unlikely scenario, but not a so bad film.
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- Director
- Busby Berkeley
- Starring
- John Garfield, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, May Robson, Gloria Dickson, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey
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