James Cagney

Angels WIth Dirty Faces  1938  Where he plays Rocky Sullivan, captured by the police in a classic scene, cornered in an empty buidling with just a revlover. The tear gas, the police on megaphones, the appeal to surrender by his boyhood friend turned priest– a scene imitated to the point of cliche, but here done perfectly. It’s 1920 and Rocky (Cagney) is caught trying to rob a train. After committing other crimes Rocky is sent to reform school. Rocky get’s out after 14 years and the story gets hot after that. Angels teams him ( again ) with Bogart, Pat  [ Read More ]

I wonder, how many NEW James Cagney fans are there? Sadly I think not many. Why? It’s Simple in this day and age classic movies are not what’s cool, almost nobody  under the age of 35 is going to watch “Yankee Doodle Dandy”. Everyone is too busy with their Ipod’s Iphones and watching the next bad action movie or teen bs (Twilight). Where is the access to classic movies? If you get TCM that’s about it. Blockbuster has 130 copies of “The Blind Side” (garbage) but not one copy of The Roaring Twenties. It’s sad the current state of film  [ Read More ]