American Madness (1932) on Netflix
Thomas Dickson runs a New York bank whose directors want him out for lending to risky customers. A cashier in debt to gamblers asks Dickson's wife out on the anniversary he forgot.
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Plot summary
At the Union National Bank, the directors think president Thomas Dickson has loaned too much money to poor risks in the Great Depression and want to replace him. Dickson will not step down, saying his borrowers have never defaulted and the loans keep money circulating. His wife Phyllis has planned a celebration for their anniversary, and a business meeting takes the evening he promises her. Dude Finlay and two other gangsters visit chief cashier Cyril Cluett, who owes them $50,000 in gambling debts; they promise not to harm him if he aids a robbery at the bank that night and tell him to arrange an alibi for midnight. Cluett asks Phyllis to go out, and she agrees. Matt Brown sees them together and assumes the worst about the marriage.
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- Julia Griffithas Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
- Sherry Hallas Carter (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about American Madness (1932)
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- American Madness was the third film in the series of collaborations between director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin, and with it Riskin wrote his first screenplay.
- The whole film contains just one zoom shot, and it was notable for being achieved with the new three-element Cooke-Varo lens.
