Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Drama, Gangsters, Suspense, Prison, Cult Classic, Psychodrama, Disturbing, Thieves, Psychos
Tagline: Pick up the pieces folks, Jimmy's in action again!
Plot: James Cagney solidified his tough guy persona in this brutal gangster opus about a vicious man who still loves his Ma. Cody Jarrett, the leader of a gang out west, has been busy knocking over banks and holding up trains. Complicating matters some, he has in tow his beloved Ma, his cool blonde beauty, Verna, and a suave double-crossing hood, Big Ed. The feds manage to put Cody behind bars on a minor charge. They then decide to plant an undercover agent in Cody's prison cell to win his confidence and encourage him to spill the beans about his criminal history. After a prison riot, Cody escapes. He leads the police on a chase through a mazelike chemical factory that culminates Cody's life of crime... and Cody insists on going out in his own blaze of glory.
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| Directed by |
Raoul Walsh
High Sierra, Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., The Roaring Twenties |
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| Ivan Goff
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Midnight Lace, The Legend of the Lone Ranger |
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James Cagney
Mister Roberts, Yankee Doodle Dandy, One, Two, Three | Virginia Mayo
The Best Years of Our Lives, Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Edmond O'Brien
The Wild Bunch, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Hunchback of Notre Dame | | Steve Cochran
The Best Years of Our Lives, Grido, Il, Jim Thorpe -- All-American | John Archer
Blue Hawaii, Destination Moon, I Saw What You Did | Wally Cassell
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Sands of Iwo Jima, Story of G.I. Joe | |
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| Music By |
Max Steiner
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Arsenic and Old Lace |
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