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Director Raoul Walsh’s essential, rousing 1939 gangster movie stars James Cagney in one of his key roles. It’s a tale of three buddies trying survive in Prohibition America after fighting together in World War One. Cagney […]
For his final movie Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, director Frank Capra remakes his 1933 hit Lady for a Day, this time casting Glenn Ford as superstitious bootlegger mobster Dave the Dude and Bette Davis as […]
‘Once I trusted a dame… now I Walk Alone!’ Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott star with Wendell Corey and Kirk Douglas in director Byron Haskin’s authentic 1947 film noir I Walk Alone. ‘Once I trusted a […]
Hooray for one of James Cagney’s most iconic and brilliant performances as Tom Powers, a fiery, hot-tempered lad from the Chicago slums who grows up to be a young hoodlum and rises high up through the […]