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...Jimmie Cagney comes into what must be his own in this one, and he does a beautiful job without guns, touch guy mannerisms, or woman-beating. This movie, which had them lined up along Washington. Street on its first run, is back at popular prices and it makes for a happy evening away from firing tables...
...song and dance routines, that bring them back to World War I days, and the picture may even manage to convince live agers that the old boys had something. Joan Leslie provides the artistic requirements neatly, and Walter Huston and Richard Wherf do nice jobs as well. Cagney even hurdles a cane a la Cohan, and gets over it safely...
Best picture of 1942 to New York City's cinecritics, who made their annual choices last week, was Noel Coward's profile of a British destroyer, In Which We Serve; best male performance was James Cagney's in Yankee Doodle Dandy, best job of direction John Farrow's of Wake Island. The Russian-made documentary, Moscow Strikes Back, won a special award as best "war fact" film. For top honors among actresses, the 18 voting critics passed over an armful of notables, chose a young woman whose name means nothing at all to most cinegoers: Agnes...
...week George M. Cohan did not have to wonder what his notices would be like: his career had been vividly reported to millions while he lived. Five months before death (of cancer) Cohan had seen a runoff of his own cinemapotheosis, Yankee Doodle Dandy (TIME, June 22), with James Cagney outdoodling the actor he portrayed. The picture turned the jauntiness and the flag-waving, the Cohan tunes and the Cohan tricks, into a nostalgic tintype of an era. No one typified that era more than Cohan himself...
...best melodrama since The Maltese Falcon (TIME, Oct. 20, 1941), also based on a Dashiell Hammett shocker. It also clears up any lingering doubts about the status of 29-year-old Alan Ladd. He is the livest thing to turn up in this sort of scarehead since James Cagney in The Public Enemy...