Manhattan Melodrama

…showing of the crime drama Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Dillinger emerged to find FBI agents waiting for him. He attempted to escape but was shot to death in the alley.

…had another big hit with Manhattan Melodrama (1934), which tells the now-familiar tale of a charismatic gangster (Clark Gable) whose boyhood friend (William Powell) becomes the district attorney who must prosecute him; Loy played the woman they both love. (Although George Cukor worked on the film, he was uncredited.)