Jack Moreno is an attorney with an office in the neighborhood he grew up in. All he wants is to help his friends and neighbors, but he must do business with the mob to make a living.Jack Moreno is an attorney with an office in the neighborhood he grew up in. All he wants is to help his friends and neighbors, but he must do business with the mob to make a living.Jack Moreno is an attorney with an office in the neighborhood he grew up in. All he wants is to help his friends and neighbors, but he must do business with the mob to make a living.
Catherine Doucet
- Mrs. Hattie Reid
- (as Catharine Doucet)
Soledad Jiménez
- Mrs. Rossetti
- (as Soledad Jiminez)
Edward J. Nugent
- Edward Spetner
- (as Edward Nugent)
John Ardizoni
- Guierpe
- (uncredited)
King Baggot
- Man at Picnic
- (uncredited)
Polly Bailey
- Crying Mother
- (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
- Duffy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film was first telecast in Chicago Friday 15 March 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), followed by Los Angeles Tuesday 19 March 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11); it first aired in Altoona PA 18 April 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10), in Philadelphia 13 June 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), in Minneapolis 11 August 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9), in Honolulu 28 August 1957 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Seattle 25 November 1957 on KING (Channel 5), in Portland 5 December 1957 on KGW (Channel 8), in San Francisco 28 January 1958 on KGO (Channel 7) and in Tampa 29 January 1958 on WFLA (Channel 8); but in New York City its earliest documented airing did not take place until 19 July 1962 on WCBS (Channel 2).
- GoofsOn the card Jack finds on the bag of booze outside his door, it states Grady's "Chowder & Social Club" is in the 72nd assembly district. But, on the door to the club it states the 76th assembly district.
- SoundtracksSanta Lucia
(uncredited)
Traditional Italian folksong
Played often in the score
Featured review
Fiorello LaGuardia would have loved this
Even a B picture from MGM looked a whole lot like an A film from some other
studios. No box office stars appear in Man Of The People, but in this case that
only makes this one more real.
Fiorello LaGuardia would have identified with Joseph Calleia in this one. He's a newly minted lawyer and just about to hang out a shingle in the old neighborhood. But the local Tammany like organization comes calling and says join or you will starve. Calleia has no choice but to join and at first he's thinking he's done the right thing.
But while boss Thomas Mitchell does help constituents in certain things he also gets a cut of a lot of corruption. One egregious examle was a 'gold finding machine' in which a lot of Calleia's friends were bilked.
The political machine as in a lot of urban areas was Irish dominated as personified by Thomas Mitchell. Mitchell wants Calleia in with him to control the more recent arriving Italians. But Calleia proves not easy to handle.
Calleia's character in a lot of ways is based on Fiorello LaGuardia who spent his life fighting Tammany Hall corruption. I'm sure the then mayor of New York City must have loved this film. And as it turned out he was running for a second term as mayor in 1937 when Man Of The People came out.
One sour note in the proceedings, Ted Healy plays a typical Tammany Hall character and he was more annoying than funny. And his actions really don't ring true with the character we are first presented with.
Still Man Of The People is not a bad political movie. It would have been an A film at RKO or Republic.
Fiorello LaGuardia would have identified with Joseph Calleia in this one. He's a newly minted lawyer and just about to hang out a shingle in the old neighborhood. But the local Tammany like organization comes calling and says join or you will starve. Calleia has no choice but to join and at first he's thinking he's done the right thing.
But while boss Thomas Mitchell does help constituents in certain things he also gets a cut of a lot of corruption. One egregious examle was a 'gold finding machine' in which a lot of Calleia's friends were bilked.
The political machine as in a lot of urban areas was Irish dominated as personified by Thomas Mitchell. Mitchell wants Calleia in with him to control the more recent arriving Italians. But Calleia proves not easy to handle.
Calleia's character in a lot of ways is based on Fiorello LaGuardia who spent his life fighting Tammany Hall corruption. I'm sure the then mayor of New York City must have loved this film. And as it turned out he was running for a second term as mayor in 1937 when Man Of The People came out.
One sour note in the proceedings, Ted Healy plays a typical Tammany Hall character and he was more annoying than funny. And his actions really don't ring true with the character we are first presented with.
Still Man Of The People is not a bad political movie. It would have been an A film at RKO or Republic.
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- Apr 22, 2018
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- Also known as
- To the Victor
- Filming locations
- Albany, New York, USA(exterior of New York state capitol building)
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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