Busby Berkeley

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American film director and choreographer (1895–1976) famous for the kaleidoscopic dance numbers in Warner Bros. musicals like 42nd Street and the Gold Diggers series. He also directed dramatic pictures, including the boxing drama They Made Me a Criminal (1939).

Directed

6.31939·1h 31mPD

Crime, Drama

John Garfield plays Johnny Bradfield, a champion boxer who flees after a night of partying ends with a dead reporter and his face in the papers. He ends up hiding out on an Arizona date farm run by a schoolteacher (Claude Rains is the detective on his trail) and mentoring the Dead End Kids in the boxing ring. Busby Berkeley — better known for his kaleidoscopic musical numbers — directs this remake of The Life of Jimmy Dolan with surprising grit. The film is in the public domain.

Crime · Drama · Romance

They Made Me a Criminal

1939 - Crime