American Madness

American Madness

1932 · 76 min · EN · 7.3 (34 votes)
Dir. Frank Capra · Starring Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings, Gavin Gordon, Arthur Hoyt · Music Mischa Bakaleinikoff

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Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.

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A breathless, pre-Code thriller that plunges you into the heart of the Great Depression's anxieties. It's a day of escalating panic, where reputations crumble and the mob mentality takes hold with relentless, gripping force.

tenseanxiousurgentdramaticpropulsivepre-code dramasocial commentaryblack-and-whitehistoricalgreedsocial injusticepaniccorruption
bankerbankbank managerbankinggreat depressionpre-codesmall community
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