Walter Huston
Thomas Dickson
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With Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings. 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 on the same day.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill
- 1932-08-15
Nearly all of American Madness, directed by Frank Capra in 1932, occurs in a single location: the Union National Bank, run by president Tom Dixon, who hasn't let Depression-era worries distract him from the kinder, gentler capitalism he believes in.
- Frank R. Capra, C. C. Coleman
- Walter Huston
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.
During the Depression, the bank owned by generous Dickson (Walter Huston) is barely staying afloat, and things get worse when $100,000 is lifted from the vault. Fingers are pointed at reformed ...
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- Frank Capra, Allan Dwan
- Drama
During the 1930s Depression, the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want him to merge with New York Trust and resign; he refuses. One night, his bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown, an ex-convict whom Dickson hired and appointed Chief Teller.
American Madness (1932) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
American Madness. Walter Huston stars as an idealistic bank president who has been making loans to depositors without sufficient collateral. When there's a run on his bank, his loyal staff rallies local small businessmen to make more deposits which moves the directors to keep the bank afloat.
