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Johnny Apollo

film by Hathaway [1940]

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In Henry Hathaway: Early work
Johnny Apollo (1940) offered a less-exotic locale, but Hathaway turned this familiar saga of a good man (played by Tyrone Power) gone wrong into one of the year’s better crime pictures. Power returned for Brigham Young (1940), a biopic about the Mormon leader.
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Lamour

In Dorothy Lamour
…pace for the gangster melodrama Johnny Apollo (1940).
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Power

In Tyrone Power
…Young (1940), the film noir Johnny Apollo (1940), and the war pictures A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) and This Above All (1942). He was especially noted for the swashbucklers The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Black Swan (1942).
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