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They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 American crime-drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the film The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933). The film later was featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia.
They Made Me a Criminal: Directed by Busby Berkeley. With John Garfield, The Dead End Kids, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan. A champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at a farm for delinquent youths.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Busby Berkeley
- 1939-01-28
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After boxing manager Doc Woods accidentally kills a reporter, he frames his champion fighter, Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield), who changes his identity and flees to Arizona.
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- Busby Berkeley
- Drama
- John Garfield
Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A young boxer flees to farming country when he thinks he's killed an opponent in the ring. Cast & Crew. Read More. Busby Berkeley. Director. John Garfield. Johnnie [Bradfield] Claude Rains. Detective Phelan. Gloria Dickson. Peggy. May Robson. Grandma. Billy Halop. Tommy.
- Busby Berkeley, Russ Saunders
- John Garfield
Johnnie, a prizefighter, is unwittingly involved in a murder, and, unable to prove his innocence (even to himself), quits boxing and flees. In Arizona he obtains work at a fruit ranch run by a kindly woman known as Grandma. The ranch is worked by delinquent boys for whom Grandma provides a home.
