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...nothing new for movies to expose corruption in American politics. When Mr. Smith went to Washington in 1939, he found Gomorrah. But the President, whether real or fictional, used to get gentler handling. In 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy, when George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney, meets Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President was played by an actor, seen largely from behind, who sounded so mature and wise that he might as well have been Moses. Two decades later, in Sunrise at Campobello, there is Roosevelt again, this time played by Ralph Bellamy as the last word in ripening decencies...
...manhunt leave you wanting? Is spectacle, not suicide, what you crave? Then here, for your VCR, are some fictional blazes of glory that put the news channels to shame. James Cagney's classic White Heat might just be the king of them all. Said to be based on Arthur "Doc" Barker and his "Ma," Cagney's mama's boy Cody Jarrett went out, back in 1949, like no one before or since. One of the first strictly setting-driven action movie finales (think of the two Terminators and their convenient ending locales), and also the hardest-boiled. Absolutely required...
...Stephens (the son of actress Maggie Smith), an improbably fine-boned actor to be playing Stanley Kowalski, misses the brutishness (and the humor) that Marlon Brando forever stamped on the role. But who needs another Brando imitation? Stephens' Stanley is a credible alternative: a cocky bantamweight, less Brando than Cagney. And if his climactic sexual conquest of Blanche is more like a grapefruit in the face than the shattering of a deluded woman's life, the approach makes Stanley less of a monster--and more of a plausible match for Stella, played with unusual strength and spunk by Imogen Stubbs...
...drunken carousing. His view of women is hardly modern, and neither is the writers'. For instance, Marsh has little tolerance for the mishaps of another female colleague, Gayle Van Camp (Catherine Kellner), who is so desperate to be one of the boys that she seems teleported from a pre--Cagney & Lacey universe. Her greatest trauma in life, we learn, is that she failed the physical-strength test that would have made her a Marine...
Other artists who performed included Joan Jett, Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless of television's "Cagney and Lacey," and Salt of Salt N' Pepa...