Word: cagney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angels With Dirty Faces (James Cagney, Pat O'Brien. Humphrey Bogart, Dead End Kids; TIME...
Angels With Dirty Faces (James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Dead End Kids; TIME...
...story simply pulsates with social significance. James Cagney and Pat O'Brien start out as slum kids. After they have been caught pilfering a freight car, Mr. Cagney saves Mr. O'Brien's life by yanking him out of the way of a locomotive. This is really a pity, since one grows into a reforming priest, the other a big shot gangster. Their paths cross years later, and you know the rest as well as Warner Brothers...
Unimaginative directing by Michael Curtis doesn't do much to redeem the triteness of this theme. And when Mr. Cagney turns out to have a heart of gold the picture degenerates into another blurb about the nobility of gangsters. "Down on the Farm," a Jones Family feature which concerns corn, both of the cob and jug variety, is naive but rather amusing...
...betrothal of her eldest daughter and Prince Frederick William of Prussia-whose son is Germany's ex-Kaiser. Submarine Patrol (Twentieth Century-Fox) shows the U. S. Navy in a strange new light. Heretofore seen on the screen as background for Dick Powell's singing, James Cagney's impudence. Hermes Pan's dance routines and Robert Young's football playing, the Navy in Submarine Patrol has suffered a sea change: it is shown fighting...