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Actors: John Garfield, Claude Raines, Gloria Dickson, The Dead End Kids
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about They Made Me a Criminal |
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Johnny Bradley (John Garfield) is celebrating his World lightweight boxing championship belt, but in a bizarre turn of events, he is implicated in a murder in his apartment while he was drunk. When he reads the papers the next day, Johnny realizes that his car crashed while escaping from the police and the authorities, who found an unidentifiable body in the wreckage, had pronounced him dead. With a new identity of Jack Dorney, he flees to Arizona where he befriends a group of juvenile delinquents (The Dead End Kids in their first screen appearance) and finds a new love in the petite Peggy (Gloria Dickson), who manages a farm. However, as hard as he tries to stay away from the public eye, his boxing instincts lure him to a bounty fight with high stakes. Meanwhile, a nagging detective, Monty Phelan (Claude Raines), who never believed that Bradley was dead, is hot on his heels.
--Biswa, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of They Made Me a Criminal |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals (shown sympathetically) on the run
Kind of sports story:
- boxing
Sports story?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- boxing
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
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