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Jimmy Cagney made 66 movies. I have seen these or have a download copy ready to watch..
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- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJames CagneyElizabeth McGovernHoward E. Rollins Jr.A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.TV and DVD - Seen it a dozen times or more.
- DirectorCharles LedererStarsJames CagneyShirley JonesRoger SmithJake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues Linda, and pins a grand larceny rap on Dan. And all set to music!DWN - Cara Williams was super good to look at. So was Shirley Jones as 2nd place to Cara. The gangster/union story was a befuddled mess. Other than Cagney supposedly being a crook, I could not tell what crime he was doing and who were those trying to boss him around. Another Hollywood attempt to try and convince us that a young woman will fall in love with an old duffer. That's their world where old rich guys get young hotties based on their money. Would anyone ever confess to something knowing they would get 20 years in prison? Not a real criminal.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJames CagneyDon DubbinsStephen McNallyWith no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly.Net - OK story.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsJames CagneyBarbara StanwyckWalter PidgeonA middle-aged man tries to reconnect with his illegitimate son, who was given to an orphanage many years ago.TCM - Good story.
- DirectorJohn FordMervyn LeRoyJoshua LoganStarsHenry FondaJames CagneyWilliam PowellIn the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations.TCM - Cagney was a grumpy ships captain.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsDoris DayJames CagneyCameron MitchellA fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.Net -
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames CagneyViveca LindforsJohn DerekMistaken for train robbers, Matt Dow and Davey Bishop are shot at by the sheriff and his posse but they are cleared and hired as lawmen.Grit TV -
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyBarbara HaleAnne FrancisA charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?TCM - Cagney's character becomes a politician after being a farmer's advocate against cheating on gin weight. Rated 7/10
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDoris DayGordon MacRaeVirginia MayoTo impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.Net - This is an entertain the troops of wounded in the Korean war, now state side. Many name stars of the day have cameos in it too, Cagney is one of them.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyVirginia MayoDoris DayA Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.Net - About a dancing/marching show at West Point academy.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJames CagneyBarbara PaytonHelena CarterStarting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.Net -
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsJames CagneyWilliam BendixWayne MorrisA wide variety of persons come into Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.Net - Story of a bar mans piano player whose observations of diffferent people he's met over the years.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyVirginia MayoEdmond O'BrienA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.TCM - Seen many times, always good.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJames CagneyAnnabellaRichard ConteWhen spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.Net - starts out kinda slow but has action and climax in last 25 minutes.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJames CagneySylvia SidneyPorter HallA dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.Net - Keeping the characters straight within the plot was difficult. The lead in news paper articles made it seem like the plot had already been exposed. I guess the Japanese Govt. was trying to prevent additional exposure the rest of the film. Last minute lady friend and Cagney facing a squad of police and evil doers without a gun was a bit unbelievable. 6/10
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJames CagneyGrace GeorgeMarjorie MainNewspaper man wanders about and helps older woman save her paper.Net -
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.TCM -
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyBette DavisStuart ErwinA financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.Very nice comedy. Cagney and Davis banter well back and forth. Plot is not complicated. Odd that some were against her marriage to a man she had only known 4 days yet she married Cagney who she had known for less time than that.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyOlivia de HavillandRita HayworthQuick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.TCM - With Rita Hayworth, Cagney is the victim of his conman pal multiple times during this story. He has a quick temper and brawls a lot.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakJean NegulescoStarsJames CagneyAnn SheridanArthur KennedyDanny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.TCM - A boxer cheated and rubbed some kind of grit in Cagney's eyes in order to blind him and win the fight.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyAnn SheridanPat O'BrienPlagued by revolutionaries that harass his plantation in a banana republic, fruit company exec Steve Case rehires former nemesis Nick Butler to restore order and profits.Net - Story was not that good, kinda jumped into the old friend/enemy/rival plot too quick to get the plot started. Cagney fell in love with singer and she with him too quick as well. George Reeves was good at whatever race of Latino he was playing.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienGeorge BrentAlthough loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.TCM -
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyHumphrey BogartPriscilla LaneThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.Net -
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyGeorge RaftJane BryanA corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.TCM - Cagney is a convicted reporter and in prison with his pal George raft. Plan to escape goes bad.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyHumphrey BogartRosemary LaneDuring the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.TCM - Cagney Kills Bogey in sort of a Wyatt Earp type story. Marries Judges daughter in the end. -- 7/10
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienHumphrey BogartA priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.TCM - Bad guy Cagney goes soft on way to execution in order to sway the dirty faces from a life of crime.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienMarie WilsonTwo screenwriters in a rut come up with a story idea starring a bankable cowboy and the baby of the studio's waitress.TCM - Fast paced comedy with quite a few laugh out loud moments.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsJames CagneyEvelyn DawWilliam FrawleyA New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs.Net -
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJames CagneyMae ClarkeJames BurkeThe adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.Net -
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayAnn DvorakJames Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.Net - Cagney becomes an FBI (G-Man) after a friend of his joins. The friend is killed by gangsters and Cagney exacts revenge.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienOlivia de HavillandTwo brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the affections of a lovely young woman.TCM - Actually 3 Irish brother characters. Cagney winds up with the girl and as a substitute fighter manages to knock out the reigning champ when brother Pat tells him Olivia DeHaviland's character loves him.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayRicardo CortezAfter a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.TCM - Some kind of skim and payola at various casinos in San Francisco 1852.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienGloria StuartA cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.DWN - Dopey story about a man (Cagney) who joins the navy to prove he is worthy of the girl he loves. Her brother, a naval officer disapproves of him as a ship building crew laborer. Once in the navy he is assigned to the USS Arizona, same ship with her brother/officer. 6/10.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyBette DavisAllen JenkinsAn unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.DWN - scheme about finding lost heirs and getting a percentage as a finders fee.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJames CagneyPatricia EllisAllen JenkinsTrucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.DWN - Love hate relationship btwn Cagney and a restaurant owner. He is in and out of jail a lot but they wind up married anyway.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyMae ClarkeMargaret LindsayA former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.DWN - Cagney gets fired for being late to work at his job as a theatre usher. He becomes a gambler and runs afowl of the law. Gets lucky and is hired to be a gangster in a prison movie. The pay is $3 per day plus a box lunch. Goes on to more movie roles and becomes a star.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellRuby KeelerChester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.DVD - The final 15 minutes of various choreography was great. The main story as it rolled along was a lot of fast talking and order barking around multiple themes. Should be 7.5/10
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJames CagneyMary BrianAllen JenkinsSmall time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series of cons to help pay it back.TCM - Cagney is a con man getting various rich folks to invest in land schemes and endorsing products. His long time girl friend's mother is a gold digger and wants her daughter to marry him or anyone with a fat wallet. Some funny lines here and there. 7/10
- DirectorArchie MayoMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyMadge EvansArthur ByronFive members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives - complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.TCM - Similar plot of the 1938 Bogey movie Crime School where he takes over the leadership of a reform school. Stupid liberal idea in both. Defiant punks deserve to have their asses_beat.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellAnn DvorakRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.DWN - Story is lacking in cohesion. Basically Cagney is a dirt track race car driver and his younger brother wants to be like him. Ends up with YB being better than Cagney who becomes a drunk for some reason, maybe after a good friend of his dies in a fiery crash. Hokey love stories too. 6-10
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyRalph BellamyPatricia EllisEx-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean's boss, convinces him of Kean's good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this, Nolan loses his stripes and Kean isn't allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of his former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees his chance....TCM - Cagney slaps around several women. 7
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyMarian NixonGuy KibbeeYoung boxer Jim Kane, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. To help her, Jim endangers his health with a tough boxing match in Tijuana. Before long, he's back fighting while Peggy stays in the desert. But in the city, after new triumphs, Jim meets Joan, a teasing Society blonde. Will he see through her before it's too late?DWN - Cagney is a boxer with a crush on two women, one being a high society gal and the other a lovely young housewife with a little boy. Most of his dialog scenes are dim-witted and predictable. His boxing seems speeded up. The film is a minor effort lacking the wit and clever script of his later films.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyLoretta YoungGeorge E. StoneIndependent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.DWN - A rival gangster mob tries to muscle in on the regular taxi drivers.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEdward G. RobinsonJames CagneyEvalyn KnappA Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.TCM - Edward G. accidentally kills Cagney in the end during a fight. Cagney falls and stabs the back of his head on a door stop.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGeorge ArlissFlorence ArlissDavid MannersA millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.TCM - Cagney is only in it for maybe 5 minutes as an insurance salesman. Fairly decent comedy for the time but not a lot of laugh out loud.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.TCM - Seen it twice. Couldn't remember any of it. On 2nd watch years later, I remembered the scene where some rival gangsters had machine guns set up across the street and gunned down his partner. I remembered the part of him getting shot and crawling in the rain and him later being dumped as a corpse in his living room. Harlow was nice to look at in her flowing pants suit but face was over made up.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGrant WithersMary AstorRegis ToomeyEvents take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.Net - Cagney not the star but does a little dance entrance at some rail road affair. Good special effects of flood and trains for the era.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGrant WithersEvalyn KnappJames CagneyMa Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story involves rum-running, accidental murder, and a frame-up.DWN - Evelyn Knapp played Cagney's sister. Joan Blondell was a hottie.