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...next best thing to being pursued by G Men yourself is a trip to see James Cagney and his merry men in at the Fenway. This reporter stumbled out of the theatre feeling definitely bear-chased...
...James Cagney is going to play Puck in the forthcoming Mid-Summer Night's Dream one can imagine, but as a "G Man" he is right in his element. The film appears to be an accurate account, generally speaking, of the development of the Department of Justice since the new anti-racket federal laws have changed its members from gang-fodder into...
...Warner) is James Cagney's best picture since The Public Enemy. An enormously exciting topical melodrama, adapted from the past few years' most violent headlines, it investigates the career of a Department of Justice agent with authenticity, enthusiasm, and enough bloodshed to cause cinema censors last week to consider banning the work from all Chicago theatres, on the ground that it might overstimulate small children...
Brick Davis (Cagney) becomes a G Man (underworld slang for Government Agent) to avenge the murder of his best friend, shot by the confederate of a gangster he was arresting. The first half of the picture is a skillfully arranged advertisement of the Department of Justice school for training its agents, snowing Brick Davis becoming involved in difficulties with his teacher (Robert Armstrong), trying to attract the attention of a girl (Margaret Lindsay) who thinks she dislikes him and doing most of the other things which are part of the Cagney formula. The second half, when Brick Davis' schooling...
...inimitable Cagney swings rapidly through the part of the dashing young chap whose extraordinary accomplishments in the air are equalled only by his ability at love-making. Our own Jimmy, as you know, just revels in any role which requires a poise full-charged with self-confidence, just right "haphazard" events, a lesson to be learned, and a pretty girl. Here he gets his chance to go sailing off on all four cylinders. And how he laps...