poster

1938

NR (03/18/1938) (US)

Drama, Romance,

1h 5m

40

User Score

MEN IN THE MAKING But what kind of men grow out of the squalor of the tenements...from the sordid back alleys of the slums?

Overview

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.

1938

40

User Score

NR (03/18/1938) (US)

Drama, Romance,

1h 5m

MEN IN THE MAKING But what kind of men grow out of the squalor of the tenements...from the sordid back alleys of the slums?

Overview

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.

Cast

Lew Ayres

Lew Ayres

Jerry Flynn

Helen Mack

Helen Mack

Mary Ellen Stephens

Sheila Bromley

Sheila Bromley

Connie Madison

Oscar O'Shea

Oscar O'Shea

Mr. Stephens

Marjorie Main

Marjorie Main

Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Byron Foulger

Gazette Owner (uncredited)

Howard Hickman

Howard Hickman

Judge (uncredited)