Me convirtieron en un criminal

Título original: They Made Me a Criminal

1939
Approved
1h 32min

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John Garfield and The Dead End Kids in Me convirtieron en un criminal (1939)

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA champion boxer on the lam, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at an Arizona farm for delinquent youths.A champion boxer on the lam, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at an Arizona farm for delinquent youths.A champion boxer on the lam, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at an Arizona farm for delinquent youths.

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Imágenes13

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Más del estilo

7,0

Orden: Caza sin cuartel

7,0

Yo amé a un asesino

6,6

Peligros de juventud

6,5

Entre la medianoche y el amanecer

7,1

El merodeador

7,5

Historia de un detective

6,8

Defiendo mi vida

6,5

Hell's Kitchen

6,6

Undertow

7,2

Me hicieron un fugitivo

7,2

La fugitiva

6,3

El telón de acero

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Curiosidades
Claude Rains at first turned down the part, feeling he would be miscast and look ridiculous as a tough New York City cop. Only after being threatened by the studio with suspension did he reluctantly accept it, but he always considered this one of his least favorite pictures.

Pifias
38 minutes into the film, Gloria Dickson's "Peggy" calls John Garfield's character "Johnnie" when he in fact is still under the guise and alias persona of "Jack Dorney." She could not know this since he has not told anyone at that point of the film. Even Jack's own corner man, at 1:15:58, calls Jack "Johnnie."

Citas
J. Douglas Williamson: You think you're smart, don't you?
Spit: They call us "The Six Geniuses."

Versiones alternativas
The AFI Catalogue has a different cast ordering, suggesting that changes were made for a re-release. Ann Sheridan is billed 6th and there are other minor changes when compared with the print currently shown on Turner Classic Movies, on which the data in IMDb is based. It is uncertain which is the original print.

Conexiones
Featured in Classic Comedy Teams (1986)

Banda sonora
M-O-T-H-E-R, a Word That Means the World to Me
(1915) (uncredited)
Music by Theodore Morse
Lyrics by Howard Johnson
Partially sung a cappella by Bert Roach

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7/10

Better Than the Original

They Made Me a Criminal is a remake of an earlier Warner Brothers film, The Life of Jimmy Dolan which starred Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as the prizefighter on the lam.

Even with the restrictions now upon production by the Hays Office, this remake actually turns out to be better than the original. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is horribly miscast as a pugilist. John Garfield with his background and style steps into a part he was born to play.

They Made Me a Criminal was directed by Busby Berkeley who Jack Warner believed in keeping busy in between musicals. Berkeley in fact would soon be leaving Warner Brothers for MGM.

Berkeley does do a fine job here, keeping the action flowing at a good pace. I particularly like the scene where four of the Dead End Kids and Garfield are swimming in a water tank and get stranded there when the water level goes down. They get it out of it quite narrowly and with some good ingenuity.

Other performances besides Garfield and the kids to remember are May Robson who runs the summer camp for the kids and Claude Rains as the obsessed detective on Garfield's trail.