Johnny Apollo (1940)

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Tyrone Power plays the college-grad son of jailed-embezzler Edward Arnold. Power tries to find work, only to be turned away because of his father's reputation. When he decides to use a phony name, he is still fired, because his ex-convict boss feels that Power is being unfair to his imprisoned… More Tyrone Power plays the college-grad son of jailed-embezzler Edward Arnold. Power tries to find work, only to be turned away because of his father's reputation. When he decides to use a phony name, he is still fired, because his ex-convict boss feels that Power is being unfair to his imprisoned father. If you can't win for losing in a 1940 film, you turn to crime. Power hires on as the right-hand man of personable but deadly gangster Lloyd Nolan. Arnold, who has become a model convict, is disgusted that his son has turned to crime. He even refuses to have anything to do with his son when Power lands in the slammer himself. Through the intervention of Nolan's moll Dorothy Lamour, a nightclub singer who has grown to love Power, Arnold realizes that his son is still a good guy underneath. Power proves as much by preventing a climactic jailbreak engineered by the homicidal Nolan. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 33 min.
Directed By: Henry Hathaway
Written By: Samuel G. Engel, Hal Long, Philip Dunne, Rowland Brown
Genres: Drama, Romance, Classics

In Theaters: Apr 19, 1940 Wide
On DVD: Apr 4, 1991

Critic Reviews

Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Moderate crime thriller never rises above being pat and routine, and barely remains credible.

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jay n

Nice tough little crime drama. Good performances from Power, Arnold and Nolan but best of all is Dorothy Lamour in one of her best, if not THE best performance of her career. Worth your while.

Cast

            Tyrone Power as Bob Cain

            Dorothy Lamour as Mabel "Lucky" DuBarry

            Lloyd Nolan as Mickey Dwyer

            Edward Arnold as Robert Cain Sr.

            Charles Grapewin as Judge Emmett T. Brennan

            Lionel Atwill as Jim McLaughlin

            Marc Lawrence I as John Bates

            Jonathan Hale as Dr. Brown

            Harry Rosenthal as Piano Player

            Russell Hicks as District Attorney

            Fuzzy Knight as Cell Mate

            Charles Lane as Assistant District Attorney

            Selmar Jackson as Warden

            Charles Trowbridge as Judge Penrose

            John Hamilton as Judge

            Wally Albright as Office Boy

            Stanley Andrews as Welfare Secretary

            Stanley Blystone as Guard

            Gary Breckner as Announcer

            Charles D. Brown as Detective

            Anthony Caruso as Joe the Henchman

            James Flavin as Guard

            Bess Flowers as Secretary

            Edward Gargan as Detective

            William Haade as Guard

            Louis Jean Heydt as Guard

            George Irving as Mr. Ives

            Eddie Marr as Harry the Henchman

            Walter Miller as Guard in Solitary

            William Pawley as Paul

            James Pierce as Guard

            Don Rowan as Guard

            Milburn Stone as Reporter

            Charles Tannen as Reporter

            Phil Tead as Reporter

            Harry Tyler as Trusty

            Emmett Vogan as Guard

            Eric Wilton as Butler

            Geneva Sawyer as "La Conga" Dancer

            Charles Williams as Photographer

            Tom Dugan as Tom the Prisoner

            Robert "Buddy" Shaw as Clerk
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