James Cagney
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Footlight Parade
(1933)A Broadway director faces cutthroat competition and other complications as he transitions to producing musical numbers for the new talking pictures.

The Strawberry Blonde
(1941)James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Rita Hayworth sparkle in this comedy about a man who wonders if he should have married his wife or his former girlfriend, The Strawberry Blonde.One Sunday afternoon at the turn of the 20th century, Hugo Barnstead (Jack Carson) walks into the office of dentist Biff Grimes (Academy Award winner Cagney--Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Roaring Twenties). Hugo doesn't suspect that Biff--with good reason--intends to murder him. Biff's memory wanders back to the events years before when his partner, Hugo, set him up for a prison term then married his girlfriend, Virginia Brush (Hayworth--Gilda, Pal Joey). But as Biff imagines what his life would have been were he married to Virginia, he realizes that he is much happier wed to Amy (Academy Award winner de Havilland--Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood) and lets his intended victim leave with nothing more than a very sore jaw.

Each Dawn I Die
(1939)Academy Award winner James Cagney stars as Frank Ross, a crusading reporter who uncovers a construction scandal involving the district attorney.

White Heat
(1949)A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

'G' Men
(1935)A man raised by gangsters puts his knowledge of the underworld to use in the FBI's war on crime.

The Bride Came C.O.D.
(1941)
The Public Enemy
(1931)Oscar-winner James Cagney became a superstar with his gritty performance as a prohibition-era Irish-American street punk who tries to make it big in Chicago's organized crime world.

Picture Snatcher
(1933)The film draws from a jolting real-life incident: the secret snapping and subsequent publication of a forbidden photograph showing the execution of a convicted murderess.

Run for Cover
(1955)A convict (James Cagney) just released from prison becomes sheriff of a western town after being mistaken for a train robber.

Shake Hands with the Devil
(1959)A medical professor recruits a U.S. student for the Irish Republican Army in 1921 Dublin.

Lady Killer
(1933)A criminal on the run becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Ragtime
(1981)A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other historic events in early 1900s New York City.

Taxi!
(1932)A hardened New York City cab driver, Matt Nolan, struggles as a crooked syndicate attempts to eliminate all independent cabbies in the city. With Matt's livelihood threatened, he recruits a gang to stand up to them - violently.

Jimmy the Gent
(1934)Academy Award winners James Cagney and Bette Davis star as a less-than-scrupulous private detective and the woman he loves--who has just left him for an even less scrupulous employer. Jimmy Corrigan (Gagney) is jealous when his operative and sweatheart, Joan Martin (Davis), goes to work for Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart) because Wallingham seems to have much more class than Corrigan. But Co...

The Roaring Twenties
(1939)Back home after World War I, three brothers-in-arms find their friendship tested when they get mixed up in a bootlegging racket during Prohibition.

Captains of the Clouds
(1942)James Cagney stars in this WWII adventure about mail flyer who joins the Canadian Air Force for fun but finds himself having to prove his worth when he goes to war.

The Fighting 69th
(1940)A braggart soldier learns the true meaning of heroism when he joins World War I's all-Irish unit.

The Oklahoma Kid
(1939)Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney star as two men on opposite sides of the law--the villainous Whip McCord and the man who's come to clean up the town, The Oklahoma Kid.

Great Guy
(1936)Un inspector de la Oficina de Pesos y Medidas lucha contra la corrupción en el oscuro submundo de los Estados Unidos de la década de 1930.

Frisco Kid
(1935)Arriving in 1800s California to make his fortune, a scrappy sailor battles his way to power on the Barbary Coast.