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Sergeant Madden

  • Director: Josef von Sternberg
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Crime
  • Movie Type: Family Drama, Crime Drama
  • Themes: Police Corruption, Fathers and Sons
  • Main Cast: Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Laraine Day, Fay Holden
  • Release Year: 1939
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 82 minutes

Plot

In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in promotions than in upholding the law and he makes few friends among his peers. When he shoots a child caught stealing, the others frame him and he is sent to prison where his attitude becomes even worse than before. Upon his escape, the bad seed goes on a crime spree. He then learns that his wife has just borne him a son. When he goes to the hospital to see the babe, his father, who set this trap, arrests him and sends him back to the pokey, proving that in this case, justice is thicker than blood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Marc Lawrence - "Piggy" Ceders; David Gorcey - Punchy; Donald Haines - Milton; Ben Welden - Stemmy; Etta McDaniel - Dove; John Kelly - Nero; Neil Fitzgerald - Casey; Dick Jones - Dennis Madden as a Boy; Drew Roddy - Al Boylan, Jr., as a Boy; Charles Trowbridge - Commissioner, 1912; George Irving - Police Commissioner; Barbara Bedford - Nurse; Wade Boteler - Niles; Nell Craig - Reception Nurse; Esther Dale - Mrs. McGillivray; John Webb Dillon - Court Attendant; Donald Douglas - Al Boylan, Sr.; James Flavin - Cop; Bess Flowers - Reception Nurse; Reed Hadley - Lawyer; Milt Kibbee - Foreman; Horace McMahon - Philadelphia; Marion Martin - Charlotte; Ivan Miller - Frawley; Harold Minjir - Couturier; Clayton Moore - Interne; Lee Phelps - Cop; Claire Rochelle - Phone Operator; Harry Strang - Cop; Charles Sullivan - Prisoner; Dale Van Sickel - Rookie/Alan Curtis' Double; E. Alyn Warren - Judge; Mary Field - Woman; Jack Pennick - Prisoner

Credit

Randall Duell - Art Director, Cedric Gibbons - Art Director, Josef von Sternberg - Director, Conrad A. Nervig - Editor, Dr. William Axt - Composer (Music Score), John F. Seitz - Cinematographer, J. Walter Ruben - Producer, Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer, Peter Ballbusch - Special Effects, Wells Root - Screenwriter, William A. Ullman Jr. - Short Story Author
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Sergeant Madden
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Starring Wallace Beery
Tom Brown
Alan Curtis
Laraine Day
Release date(s) 1939
Running time 80 min.
Country  United States
Language English

Sergeant Madden is a 1939 film noir forerunner directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Wallace Beery. The supporting cast in this dark police movie, noted for its imaginative and evocative cinematography, includes Laraine Day, Alan Curtis, and Marc Lawrence.

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