Movie Information
Overall Rank: 7792
Average Rating: 2.6/4
# of Ratings: 14
Theatrical Release Date: 08/19/1939
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Keighley
Actors: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Stanley Ridges
Plot: James Cagney plays a journalist framed for a crime he didn't commit, he tries to endure the indignities of incarceration while he awaits to be proven innocent. George Raft is a career criminal who Cagney befriends tries to help in Cagney's plight. -- phantom
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2/4
dukeakasmudge - wrote on 09/12/2011
It wasnt 1 of Cagneys best but the cast of this movie was alright
Rating of
4/4
phantom - wrote on 01/09/2008
Cagney is, as always, on the top of the world. When the movie starts out it just seems like your standard prison movie, but it draws you in. There is a scene when Cagney appears before the parole board. At first he has an outburst yelling he would get them one day. Then an instant later he breaks down into this heart-breaking apeal. I believe the only reason he didn't recieve an oscar for this role is because of all the other equally graet films that came out in 1939. This film kind of reminicent of Shawshank Redemption, if it had been made in black and white. I simply cannot recomend this movie enough. If only to see James Cagney and George Raft in their prime, its totally worth the rental price.
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