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American Madness

The Great American Picture of Today!

6.9/ 1019321h 16m

DramaCrime

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.

Directed by Frank Capra

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Behind the frames

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Walter Huston

Walter Huston

Thomas Dickson

Pat O'Brien

Pat O'Brien

Matt Brown

Kay Johnson

Kay Johnson

Phyllis Dickson

Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings

Helen

Gavin Gordon

Gavin Gordon

Cyril Cluett

Arthur Hoyt

Arthur Hoyt

Ives

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Police Inspector

Edwin Maxwell

Edwin Maxwell

Clark (uncredited)