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...Crooks have their place,'' the hero (James Cagney) remarks, and that place, he seems to think, is in the president's office of every union. At any rate, by the timely employment of criminal methods, ranging from the well-known bite to a mass snatch of the voting opposition, the hero wins the presidency of the local. Whereupon, in order to make good on his blithe campaign promise of a new union hall, complete with a bar and a bowling alley, he hijacks a crate of watches worth $750,000 and fences them out to big jewelry...
...skeptical of Humphrey, wrote of a reappraisal: "He has been suffering for years from the original impression he created here as a gabby, to-hell-with-the-consequences liberal . . . Hubert Humphrey is still a pretty glib and cocky fellow, who looks like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Cagney, but the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward in the last six years." Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt said that Humphrey comes closest of all top Democratic presidential possibilities to having that "spark of greatness" that the next U.S. President will need.* And from California's Congressman...
...than $78 million; of a cerebral occlusion; in Los Angeles. Under Polish-born Harry Warner, the brothers pioneered talking pictures (Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927), acquired a stable of stars that included John Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Rin-Tin-Tin. Two years ago, when Warner Brothers sold a third of its outstanding common stock to an Eastern syndicate, Harry yielded the presidency to his youngest brother, Jack, retired to raise thoroughbred race horses...
Still, the picture has its moments, and the plot is still fresh and Greene enough. The two young leading players (Robert Ivers and Georgann Johnson) are less than sensational, but they show enough talent and training to make the early Ladd and Lake look comparatively sad. And Director James Cagney, in his first appearance behind the camera, manages to beauty-spot a few of the bare places with some characteristic Cagney touches...
...James Cagney plays the role with sensitivity and understanding. As Chaney's two wives. Dorothy Malone and Jane Greer, though plotted in severe black and white, manage to make grey-toned human beings of themselves. Most important, Lon Chaney is presented in all his frail- ties. He was a jealous, generous, obstinate, softhearted man. Seldom in Hollywood's euphemistic tributes to its own has the tribute included so many ugly realities at the expense of glamorous garnish...