melodramatic and yes and but this movie have some meat to it that i wasn not expect . clark gable and william powell play childhood friend who grow up to be a hood and a respect judge and respectively . both have a thing for myrna loy and but the expected rivalry for which this plot would seem to be tailor make never come . instead and there a refreshingly serious story about the boundary of loyalty and friendship . when gable be accuse of murder and sentence to the death penalty and it be powell duty to decide whether or not to let his personal feeling for gable interfere with his practice of legal justice . loy pop up throughout and but and unfortunately and she window dress . ( side note represent my wife and i decide to have a myrna loy theme to our new year movie night and and rent this and the bachelor and the bobby soxer . we couldn not have pick two myrna loy movie that do a bad job of show off myrna loy ) . no and this movie belong to the men and and the whole affair be good than i expect it to be . grade represent b plus .