The Great O'Malley

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The Great O'Malley
Lobby card for the film.
Directed by	William Dieterle
Screenplay by	Milton Krims Tom Reed
Based on	The Making of O'Malley 1924 story in Redbook by Gerald Beaumont
Produced by	Jack L. Warner Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Pat O'Brien Sybil Jason Humphrey Bogart
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Edited by	Warren Low
Music by	Heinz Roemheld
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	February 13, 1937
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Great O'Malley is a 1937 crime film directed by William Dieterle and starring Pat O'Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan. The 1925 silent version The Making of O'Malley starred Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill and Helen Rowland.

Plot[]

James O'Malley (Pat O'Brien) is an overzealous, unforgiving officer who abides by the letter of the law and hands out citations for petty infractions. He pulls over John Phillips (Humphrey Bogart) for a noisy muffler, delaying him long enough to cause him to be late for arriving at his new job that would help him to take care of his wife (Frieda Inescort) and crippled daughter, Barbara (Sybil Jason). After losing the job for being late, Phillips becomes desperate and attempts to pawn his medals and a revolver. The store owner does not want to pay him what the items are worth, causing Phillips to become enraged, knocking the clerk down, and taking money from the cash register. This leads to Phillips being arrested and sentenced to prison for robbery. Meanwhile, O'Malley is being ridiculed for being too hard on normal working people and gets demoted by Captain Cromwell (Donald Crisp) to be a school crossing guard for the same school where Phillips' daughter attends. Barbara and O'Malley strike up a friendship, while he falls in love with her teacher, Judy Nolan (Ann Sheridan), whose disdain softens his martinet attitude. After O'Malley finds out that Barbara is the daughter of the man that he sent to jail, he provides for her and her mother, finds a physician to fix Barbara's ailing leg, working out a payment plan to fund it, and helps to get Phillips paroled. Unaware of O'Malley's help and seeking revenge, Phillips shoots the officer. Humanized by his experiences, O'Malley exonerates Phillips by claiming that the shooting was accidental. The officer recovers and is reinstated to his old beat, with the respect of his fellow officers and the love of Judy.

Cast[]

• Pat O'Brien as James Aloysius O'Malley
• Sybil Jason as Barbara "Babs" Phillips
• Humphrey Bogart as John Phillips
• Ann Sheridan as Judy Nolan
• Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Phillips
• Donald Crisp as Captain Cromwell
• Henry O'Neill as Defense Attorney
• Craig Reynolds as Motorist
• Hobart Cavanaugh as Pinky Holden
• Gordon Hart as Doctor
• Mary Gordon as Mrs. O'Malley
• Mabel Colcord as Mrs. Flaherty
• Frank Sheridan as Father Patrick
• Lillian Harmer as Miss Taylor
• Delmar Watson as Tubby
• Frank Reicher as Dr. Larson
• Granville Bates as Jake, Bar Proprietor (uncredited)^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• The Great O'Malley in the Internet Movie Database
• The Great O'Malley at AllMovie
• The Great O'Malley at the TCM Movie Database
• The Great O'Malley at the American Film Institute Catalog

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