Jimmy Cagney is a pug and a mug. Sent to Arizona to recover his health, he falls for former Broadway show girl Marian Nixon and her son, Dickie Moore. She's about to be thrown out for not paying her bills, so he breaks his regimen to win the money in a pick-up fight in Tijuana. Feeling better, he heads back to the fight racket under manager Guy Kibbee, and does very well. He's pick up by bored socialite Virginia Bruce, whom he thinks is in love with him.
Cagney spends a lot more time back on his heels than usual in his movies in this period, as his atitutde is pretty funny as he gets his nose bobbed, cauliflower ears trimmed, and takes lessons in polite behavior from Alan Mowbray in a vain effort to fit in. DP Robert Kurrie fits the fight scenes -- mostly against Harvey Parry -- very nicely. With Esther Howard, Clarence Muse, and Ralf Harolde.
Cagney spends a lot more time back on his heels than usual in his movies in this period, as his atitutde is pretty funny as he gets his nose bobbed, cauliflower ears trimmed, and takes lessons in polite behavior from Alan Mowbray in a vain effort to fit in. DP Robert Kurrie fits the fight scenes -- mostly against Harvey Parry -- very nicely. With Esther Howard, Clarence Muse, and Ralf Harolde.