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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).
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.
- (2.6K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Busby Berkeley
- 1939-01-28
Jun 17, 2013 · Stars: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, Dead End KidsDirector: Busby Berkeley A boxer flees town believing he committed a murder while he was drunk.
- 91 min
- 88.3K
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They Made Me a Criminal (1939) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
- (28)
- Busby Berkeley
- Drama
- John Garfield
Johnnie Bradfield, a deadly and cynical prize fighter, has just slugged his way to the championship when, during a drunken brawl in his apartment, his manager, Doc Wood, accidentally kills Magee, a newspaper reporter, and fixes the evidence so it appears that Johnnie has done the deed.
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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.
