13 rue Madeleine (1946), White Heat (1949), The Roaring Twenties (1939), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), One, Two, Three (1961), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mister Roberts (1955), The Public Enemy (1931) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best James Cagney movies.
Storyline: Successful middle-aged businessman Steve Bradford returns to the town where he attended college many years previously. His conscience has been bothering him since whilst a student, he fathered an illegitimate son who was given away to the local orphanage. He returns to the orphanage and meets its current head, Ann Dempster, hoping to persuade her to help him find his son. She refuses but Steve finds himself getting more involved at the orphanage and learns many lessons life had failed to teach him.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, emotional, father-son relationship, coming of age, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland. Returning from Cleveland to Newark, Texas' plane crashes attempting to land on the airfield under extremely bad weather circumstances and he dies from this accident. Dizzy feels guilty for his friend's death and takes the next flight to Cleveland under even worse circumstances, testing a new anti-ice device on the plane.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: drama, action, adventure, aviation, romance, comedy, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding with, Dow clears his name and ends up as the new sheriff. He romances a Swedish woman and settles in to a peaceful life only to find that the boy has a few secrets of his own.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: western, crime, drama, film noir, fugitive, mistaken identity, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of earning a lot of money, but he marries the girl-friend of one of them. After listening to Churchill's famous "Blood, Sweat and tears" radio address he and some other pilots decide to join the RCAF - and his superior is always the pilot who's girlfriend he has married. Due to this and the fact, that McLean doesn't like to obey he gets troubles.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, canada, patriotism, heroism, adventure, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As he retires from the U.S. Navy, Admiral William J. Halsey (James Cagney) recalls the most daunting challenge in his career: the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. Ordered to replace a close friend as fleet admiral, Halsey faces a wily and fierce adversary in Japan's Admiral Yamamoto, and spends the grueling months of the campaign confounding expectations of both the enemy and his own staff. Pained by the losses he knows they will endure, Halsey pushes his forces to the brink.
Plot Keywords: war, history, biography, military, world war ii, navy, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Broadway director (James Cagney) must turn cadet to stage a show with his girlfriend (Virginia Mayo) at the U.S. Military Academy.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, dance, usa, 1950s, broadway ...
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