Frank Capra directed this comedy/drama, which stars Walter Huston as a Bank President named Dickson who is being pressured by his board of directors to merge with New York Trust, then resign. He refuses,but when his bank is later robbed of $100,000, the chief suspect Matt Brown(played by Pat O'Brian) was a man he personally hired, and whom their is mutual loyalty, Dickson is put in a bad position. The real culprit is a man named Cluett, who is having an affair with Mrs. Dickson, who is unaware of his guilt... Reasonably effective film is rough around the edges, and pales in comparison to Capra's later work, but works as an effective time capsule look at the depression era, and for that is still interesting.
Review of American Madness
