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Blood on the Sun (James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney; TIME, June...
Blood on the Sun (James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney; TIME, June...
...moviemakers' problems are moral. When James Cagney portrayed an honest, crusading employe of a city department of weights & measures (in Great Guy), gas-station owners and retail grocers cried that it reflected on their honesty...
...Editor Cagney, aroused by the brutal murders of his good friends Reporter Wallace Ford & wife (Rosemary De Camp), who first try to get the plan out of the country, beards such Black Dragons as Baron Tanaka (John Emery) and Colonel Tojo (Robert Armstrong) in their ultra-ceremonious dens. He gets framed by the Japanese police; makes the romantic acquaintance of a half-Chinese beauty (Sylvia Sidney) whose access to high places stirs his suspicions; unmasks the crookery of a fellow-journalist (Rhys Williams); helps drive Tanaka to harakiri. For comic relief he makes a monkey, again & again...
...stretches of muted menace and its well-designed explosions of violence, Blood on the Sun has much of the clean, sharp-nerved charm which used to distinguish the adventure romances of the late great Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A shade less inspired than Fairbanks as an athlete, Cagney is an even better actor. He cannot even put a telephone receiver back on its hook without giving the action special spark and life. Moreover, liberal Actor-Producer Cagney is a man of sense and good will. He takes care, even in the midst of this angry bit of patriotism, to show that...