Word: cagney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the land, many of the old, abandoned monuments to America's past are welcoming visitors as they never did before. There are the august red brick firehouses, the rococo waterworks, the splendiferous banks with marble floors and tellers' grilles that could have come from a Jimmy Cagney heist flick, abandoned churches raised with prayer and artistry, majestic railroad stations, many designed by the finest architects in the U.S. They have been re-antiquated and reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout...
White Heat and Each Dawn I Die, two of Cagney's greatest movies, move into the Welles tomorrow. In Each Dawn Cagney plays a hard-nosed journalist (Cagney's always hard-nosed) who learns what prison life is like first hand...
...Wild One, Brando's archetypal motorcycle movie about alienation on two wheels, is playing at the Welles this week with Jimmy Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy. The Brando is pretty much of a period piece that's only any good because of its star and because of what it says in retrospect about the 50s. The Cagney film, on the other hand, is the greatest musical biography ever made. Cagney can't sing to save his life, but he sure can boogie. The patriotic clap-trap that fills the footage can go, but the George M. Cohan songs should stick...
...better than some of his more popular work. The cast for this laconic look at class conflict in the rural South includes Marlon Brando--playing the archetypal Southern sheriff--and young versions of Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It's playing with G-Men, a film in which Jimmy Cagney switches from hood to FBI agent. Well, out of the pan and into the fire...
Serpico, playing at the Harvard Sq. this week with The Friends of Eddie Coyle, is the best police movie to come out of American studios since the days of Cagney and Bogart. It has its requisite amount of action and violence, but it also has more than its share of intelligence. The most amazing thing about the movie is how much Al Pacino (who's very good in the title role) looks like the real Frank Serpico. Serpico flew in from Switzerland a few months ago to endorse Ramsey Clark's Senate bid in New York and had people wondering...