Favorite Actors: James Cagney
One of my all time favorites - here's a list of Cagney films I've reviewed on the IMDb, offered in IMDb ranking order.
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- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyVirginia MayoEdmond O'BrienA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.Made it Ma, top of the world!
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyHumphrey BogartPriscilla LaneThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.I'm lookin' for some excitement, there's a lull in the joint.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames CagneyHorst BuchholzPamela TiffinIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter."Better a dead hero than a live Communist!"
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienHumphrey BogartA priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.You know you cost me a lot of prayer.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.Remember this boys, you gotta have friends.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.We'll make this whole theatrical business sit up and holler for help!
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellRuby KeelerChester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.They deliver the show in tin cans and we got nothing to worry about.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJames CagneyElizabeth McGovernHoward E. Rollins Jr.A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.The only freedom he's got left is how to die.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyOlivia de HavillandRita HayworthQuick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.Do me a favor and tie that bull outside.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakJean NegulescoStarsJames CagneyAnn SheridanArthur KennedyDanny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.Every day the big parade comes in shaking their faces...
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyGeorge RaftJane BryanA corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.Learnin' kind of fast, ain't ya mug?
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsJames CagneyDorothy MaloneJane GreerThe life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.I've got a box full of faces Gert, a whole box full!
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayAnn DvorakJames Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.It's the big daddy of G-Men pictures!
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsDoris DayJames CagneyCameron MitchellA fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.Whoever I am kiddo, I'm what makes you tick...
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJames CagneyBarbara PaytonHelena CarterStarting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.We got you here Charlie, to tell you you've just been signed by our ball club...
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellLouis CalhernThe adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.With my ideas and your looks, we could trim the world.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGeorge ArlissFlorence ArlissDavid MannersA millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.A retired man hasn't any paradise...
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyRalph BellamyPatricia EllisEx-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean's boss, convinces him of Kean's good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this, Nolan loses his stripes and Kean isn't allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of his former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees his chance....In my opinion, modern journalism has descended to a deplorable level.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyBette DavisStuart ErwinA financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.One of you is gonna get married and the other one is goin' to jail, so you really got a lot in common.
- DirectorArchie MayoMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyMadge EvansArthur ByronFive members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives - complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.Excuse me boss, I ain't no lawyer, I can't talk without thinking.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyBette DavisAllen JenkinsAn unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.There's only two kinds o' guys in business, those who get caught and those who don't.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJames CagneyPhyllis ThaxterRaymond MasseyAlcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics. His boss enlists his help to sober up his nephew, Boyd Copeland, who has married Lew's old sweetheart. Boyd, who is involved with a cabaret singer and the mob, presents quite a challenge.Heaven takes care of drunks and children.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleMax ReinhardtStarsJames CagneyDick PowellIan HunterTwo couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.What fools these mortals be!
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJames CagneyAnnabellaRichard ConteWhen spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.I concede nothing, until they throw dirt in my face.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJames CagneyMary BrianAllen JenkinsSmall time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series of cons to help pay it back.Never let a snake bite ya' twice.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyAnn SheridanPat O'BrienPlagued by revolutionaries that harass his plantation in a banana republic, fruit company exec Steve Case rehires former nemesis Nick Butler to restore order and profits.Mister, the stork that brought you must have been a vulture.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEdward G. RobinsonJames CagneyEvalyn KnappA Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.Mr. Nick, you sure is one lucky white man.
- DirectorMelville ShavelsonStarsBob HopeMilly VitaleGeorge TobiasAfter the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children into the act and takes it on the road.You only learned to count to seven so you could keep track of us.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsJames CagneyBarbara StanwyckWalter PidgeonA middle-aged man tries to reconnect with his illegitimate son, who was given to an orphanage many years ago.Some things you can never pay for.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJames CagneyPatricia EllisAllen JenkinsTrucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.Somebody ought to talk to him like a mother.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames CagneyViveca LindforsJohn DerekMistaken for train robbers, Matt Dow and Davey Bishop are shot at by the sheriff and his posse but they are cleared and hired as lawmen.Lots of fellas live and die without ever having to find out how much of a man they are.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJames CagneyDon DubbinsStephen McNallyWith no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly.You let one buzzard live and he'll pick your bones clean.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyLoretta YoungGeorge E. StoneIndependent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.I'll knock her nose around her ear!
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGrant WithersMary AstorRegis ToomeyEvents take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.Now get this straight, when a guy is a pal o' mine, I don't play around with his wife.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsLew AyresJames CagneyDorothy MathewsDespite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.You were safe in jail, now it's just too bad.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyDennis MorganBrenda MarshallInspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.He's a good pilot, but he can't explain how he does it.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienGloria StuartA cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.Holy smoke, look at the trim lines on that destroyer!
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyHumphrey BogartRosemary LaneDuring the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.I haven't done anything, except kill a lot of coyotes in self defense, if you want to put it in law talk.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGrant WithersEvalyn KnappJames CagneyMa Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story involves rum-running, accidental murder, and a frame-up.Give 'em a quick flash girls, give 'em a quick flash...
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsJames CagneyArt CarneyEllen BarkinA wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.The thing is, you can come from nothing, and be something.
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsJames CagneyWilliam BendixWayne MorrisA wide variety of persons come into Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.Come in and be yourself.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellAnn DvorakRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.You can't take the roar of the crowd and cash in on it.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsJames CagneyEvelyn DawWilliam FrawleyA New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs."Please, don't do as I say, say as I do!"
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJames CagneyMae ClarkeJames BurkeThe adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.With you, everything's a racket.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJames CagneyCorinne CalvetDan DaileyThe wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.It's a lousy war kid, but it's the only one we've got.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyBarbara HaleAnne FrancisA charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?"You name it, he's got it!"
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellVictor JoryDan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide."All right, let's have some steam!"
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJames CagneySylvia SidneyPorter HallA dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination."We've got jobs to do, nobody gave them to us but they've got to be done."
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayRicardo CortezAfter a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast."... he who digs a grave for somebody else, usually falls in himself."
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienOlivia de HavillandTwo brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the affections of a lovely young woman."Of course, I don't look so good with my clothes on."
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyMarian NixonGuy KibbeeYoung boxer Jim Kane, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. To help her, Jim endangers his health with a tough boxing match in Tijuana. Before long, he's back fighting while Peggy stays in the desert. But in the city, after new triumphs, Jim meets Joan, a teasing Society blonde. Will he see through her before it's too late?"Wait'll some guy lays a stiff right hand on that new beak and it'll spread like ice cream in August."