Johnny Apollo (1940)

When his stockbroker father (Edward Arnold) is sent to prison for embezzlement, his son (Tyrone Power) denounces him. But after regretting his decision to abandon his father, he turns to a life of crime as a mobster's (Lloyd Nolan) henchman in order to buy his father a pardon. Directed by Henry Hathaway (TRUE GRIT), this crime drama is unusual in that Tyrone Power plays against type instead of his usual romantic leading man roles as does Dorothy Lamour (on loan from Paramount to 20th Century Fox) as a mobster's mistress. That's about it as far as out of the ordinary as the plot is pretty standard fare. Power is okay but he'd reveal stronger acting chops seven years later in NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Its interest today is strictly for the "Golden Age" star power (no pun intended) of Power and Lamour. If the film had starred Richard Carlson and Ann Rutherford, I doubt anybody would be interested. With Charley Grapewin, Lionel Atwill and Marc Lawrence.