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City for Conquest [1940]. The first installment in a week-long WKBG tribute to James Cagney. (See Monday, 9:30 p.m.) Ch. 56, 11:25 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
Salute to James Cagney. It has been said that Cagney is one of a handful of actors whose last name instantly evokes recognition and respect. (Among the others: Bogart, Brando, Chaplin.) Tonight, the American Film Institute honors him with its second annual lifetime achievement award. If last year's AFI salute to John Ford is any indication, the ceremony (which CBS is broadcasting in condensed form five days after it occurred) will be boring and corny. Last year, legions of Hollywood celebrities tripped over themselves and President Nixon trying to outdo each other in paying soapy homage to Ford. Nixon...
Public Enemy [1931]. Cagney plays a punk who grows up to be a crook. The film that made him famous. Ch. 56, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
Yandee Doodle Dandy [1941]. Cagney in the musical biography of songwriter George M. Cohan. Ch. 56, 8 p.m. B/W, 2 1/2 hours...
...career management, it was a commercial moviemaker's dream. To begin with, his passion for upward mobility inevitably brings up the tragic gangster heroes of cinema history -those overreaching Little Caesars whose dreams of success were so satisfyingly animated by the likes of Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney...