Very dated JAMES CAGNEY flick has him fighting to keep control over two leading ladies: good gal MARGARET LINDSAY who's a Hollywood actress, and bad girl MAE CLARKE who's the moll in a gangster's gang. On the lam after a robbery turns into murder, Cagney winds up in Hollywood as a bit player who soon graduates to stardom. His old gang from New York wants to blackmail him so they turn up and the heat is on.
It's the kind of story tailor-made for an actor like Cagney who takes to his street tough role like a duck to water. He gives pretty rough treatment to Mae Clarke again, this time not slapping her in the face with a grapefruit but pulling her across the room by her hair and then tossing her out in the hall and throwing her suitcase after her.
It's all on the implausible side and ends with a feverish car chase with the police tipped off that the gangsters are trying to kill him. Good triumphs over evil and Cagney is cleared of all charges in time for a standard happy ending.
Fairly entertaining, brisk little caper but nothing special. Only Cagney's ardent fans will want to catch this one.
It's the kind of story tailor-made for an actor like Cagney who takes to his street tough role like a duck to water. He gives pretty rough treatment to Mae Clarke again, this time not slapping her in the face with a grapefruit but pulling her across the room by her hair and then tossing her out in the hall and throwing her suitcase after her.
It's all on the implausible side and ends with a feverish car chase with the police tipped off that the gangsters are trying to kill him. Good triumphs over evil and Cagney is cleared of all charges in time for a standard happy ending.
Fairly entertaining, brisk little caper but nothing special. Only Cagney's ardent fans will want to catch this one.