American Madness
The Great American Picture of Today!
Directed by Frank Capra
Produced by Columbia Pictures
A socially-conscious Depression-era drama about institutional fragility and personal betrayal, where a banker's faith in community is tested by cascading crises in a single day.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
Walter Huston
Thomas Dickson
Pat O'Brien
Matt Brown
Kay Johnson
Phyllis Dickson
Constance Cummings
Helen
Gavin Gordon
Cyril Cluett
Arthur Hoyt
Ives
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Inspector
Edwin Maxwell
Clark (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway
Oscar (uncredited)
Robert Ellis
Dude Finlay (uncredited)
Tom Dugan
Depositor (uncredited)
Charley Grapewin
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
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