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...James Cagney forsakes the city gangster to become an Oklahoma badman. The change isn't too convincing, but Cagney manages to shoot, mutilate, and generally manhandle other badmen in spite of the change in roles...
Johnny Come Lately (James Cagney, Grace George; TIME, Sept...
Johnny Come Lately (James Cagney, Grace George, Marjorie Lord, Edward McNamara; TIME, Sept...
...route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those cinemaddicts who like James Cagney chiefly for his fleet footwork and persuasive paws. As a period document, Johnny Come Lately bogs down neither in history nor documentation. Its historicity is chiefly an excuse for an unusual amount of pleasure in human beings, their relationships, the clothes they wore, the homes they lived...
...James Cagney, who in his time had to plant fists or a grapefruit on young ladies' faces and shoes on young ladies' behinds, here develops his tenderest relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal...