Johnny Apollo (1940)
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57% of users liked it
(65 ratings)
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
- Directed By
- Henry Hathaway
- Written By
- Samuel G. Engel, Hal Long, Philip Dunne, Rowland Brown
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 19, 1940 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Moderate crime thriller never rises above being pat and routine, and barely remains credible.
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Cast
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Tyrone Power
as Bob Cain, Johnny Apollo
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Dorothy Lamour
as Mabel "Lucky" DuBarry
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Lloyd Nolan
as Mickey Dwyer
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Edward Arnold
as Robert Cain Sr.
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Charles Grapewin
as Judge Emmett T. Brennan
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Lionel Atwill
as Jim McLaughlin
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Marc Lawrence I
as John Bates
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Jonathan Hale
as Dr. Brown
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Harry Rosenthal
as Piano Player
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Russell Hicks
as District Attorney
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Fuzzy Knight
as Cell Mate
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Charles Lane
as Assistant District Attorney
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Selmar Jackson
as Warden
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Charles Trowbridge
as Judge Penrose
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John Hamilton
as Judge
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Wally Albright
as Office Boy
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Stanley Andrews
as Welfare Secretary
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Stanley Blystone
as Guard
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Gary Breckner
as Announcer
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Charles D. Brown
as Detective
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Anthony Caruso
as Joe the Henchman
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James Flavin
as Guard
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Bess Flowers
as Secretary
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Edward Gargan
as Detective
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William Haade
as Guard
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Louis Jean Heydt
as Guard
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George Irving
as Mr. Ives
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Eddie Marr
as Harry the Henchman
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Walter Miller
as Guard in Solitary
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William Pawley
as Paul
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James Pierce
as Guard
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Don Rowan
as Guard
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Milburn Stone
as Reporter
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Charles Tannen
as Reporter
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Phil Tead
as Reporter
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Harry Tyler
as Trusty
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Emmett Vogan
as Guard
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Eric Wilton
as Butler
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Geneva Sawyer
as "La Conga" Dancer
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Charles Williams
as Photographer
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Tom Dugan
as Tom the Prisoner
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Robert "Buddy" Shaw
as Clerk
