Word: cagney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brien, a policeman, Frank McHugh, a fireman, and Cagney. no occupation, are brothers watched over by an extremely Irish mother (Mary Gordon) whose brogue is so strong that, to the possible improvement of the picture, half her lines are virtually unintelligible. What entertainment the picture provides is mostly due to the antics of McHugh and Allen...
...modern and urban equivalent for the now defunct Wild West thriller, "G-Men," the terrier-like James Cagney swaggers his way through a tempestuous epic of the Department of Justice. Technical perfection and a deft, rapid-fire tempo combine to obscure the insanity of the plot, and, when public enemies sway to the stutter of government machine guns, Willie cheers just as he would if the last rustler had cashed in his chips. The philosopher may believe that "G-Men" misses fire as social drama, but he will hardly find it boring...
After sitting for a time in his law office, chucking out politicians who seek to corrupt his legal talents, Cagney joins the Department of Justice to avenge a gang-slaughter comrade. This Sir Bedivere of the Bronx finishes training school with characteristic verve, just in time to help Uncle Sam grapple with a middlewestern crime wave. Chicago becomes a hades of riddled corpses, black Cadillac touring cars, and sub-machine guns. Other federal men, perhaps less gullible than the screen loving public, express their amazement to find that Cagney grew up in New York side-by-side with most...
...follow Mr. Cagney's doings from the time he goes down to Washington as a rookie among the federal boys, through a series of hair-raising vicissitudes entailed in the wiping out of some 14 public enemies, until we see him as the noblest G Man of them all, marrying the lovely creature who has been tending his wounds...
Margaret Lindsay as this nurse in question is fairly inadequate, but Robert Armstrong as her brother and Cagney's hard-boiled superior turns in an exceptionally fine performance...