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  • Cagney film list

    The Public Enemy
    Easy Money
    Taxi (Jimmy talks in Yiddish!)
    Jimmy the Gent
    Oklahoma Kid (he's having a ball, but he and Bogie are out of place)
    The Bride Came C.O.D.
    Torrid Zone
    The Roaring Twenties
    Angels With Dirty Faces (that final scene with him still scares me)
    Each Dawn I Die
    The Strawberry Blond
    Boy Meets Girl (best of his films with pal Pat O'Brien)
    A Midsummer's Nights Dream (Jimmy does "Bottom" damned well)
    Yankee Doodle Dandy (Cohan approved of the performance before he died)
    Johnny Come Lately (Jimmy and Grace George as equally charming characters)
    Thirteen Rue Madeleine (I think his end in this film influenced the end in "White Heat")
    Blood in the Sun
    Footlight Parade (love his "Shanghai L'il" Number with Ruby Keeler - and dig the brief appearance of John Garfield as a sailor in the number.
    Captain of the Clouds
    The Time of Your Life
    White Heat ("Top of the World Ma!!")
    The West Point Story
    These Wilder Years
    Epitaph for a Bad Man (his best western actually)
    Love Me or Leave Me
    Never Steal Anything Small (he has timing and energy still - but the musical is third rate)
    The Seven Little Foys (nice repeat cameo and dance with Bob Hope)
    The Fighting 69th
    Come Fill the Cup (I think this film is underrated)
    What Price Glory?
    Mr. Roberts
    One Two Three
    Ragtime (a final sunset appearance)
    The Man of a Thousand Faces (a strenuous part for Cagney)
    A Lion is in the Streets (an attempt at Huey Long - Crawford was better though)

    I could not recall his film about Bull Halsey, the admiral -

    Jeff

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    • Originally posted by Mayerling View Post
      The Public Enemy
      Easy Money
      Taxi (Jimmy talks in Yiddish!)
      Jimmy the Gent
      Oklahoma Kid (he's having a ball, but he and Bogie are out of place)
      The Bride Came C.O.D.
      Torrid Zone
      The Roaring Twenties
      Angels With Dirty Faces (that final scene with him still scares me)
      Each Dawn I Die
      The Strawberry Blond
      Boy Meets Girl (best of his films with pal Pat O'Brien)
      A Midsummer's Nights Dream (Jimmy does "Bottom" damned well)
      Yankee Doodle Dandy (Cohan approved of the performance before he died)
      Johnny Come Lately (Jimmy and Grace George as equally charming characters)
      Thirteen Rue Madeleine (I think his end in this film influenced the end in "White Heat")
      Blood in the Sun
      Footlight Parade (love his "Shanghai L'il" Number with Ruby Keeler - and dig the brief appearance of John Garfield as a sailor in the number.
      Captain of the Clouds
      The Time of Your Life
      White Heat ("Top of the World Ma!!")
      The West Point Story
      These Wilder Years
      Epitaph for a Bad Man (his best western actually)
      Love Me or Leave Me
      Never Steal Anything Small (he has timing and energy still - but the musical is third rate)
      The Seven Little Foys (nice repeat cameo and dance with Bob Hope)
      The Fighting 69th
      Come Fill the Cup (I think this film is underrated)
      What Price Glory?
      Mr. Roberts
      One Two Three
      Ragtime (a final sunset appearance)
      The Man of a Thousand Faces (a strenuous part for Cagney)
      A Lion is in the Streets (an attempt at Huey Long - Crawford was better though)

      I could not recall his film about Bull Halsey, the admiral -

      Jeff
      Dope list! Your missing three of the best ones though, Picture Snatcher, Lady Killer & Winner take all. Must sees

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      • Originally posted by RockySullivan View Post
        Dope list! Your missing three of the best ones though, Picture Snatcher, Lady Killer & Winner take all. Must sees
        Should have included "Lady Killer" but forgot the name. I have not seen Picture Snatcher nor Winner Take All.

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        • Originally posted by Mayerling View Post
          Should have included "Lady Killer" but forgot the name. I have not seen Picture Snatcher nor Winner Take All.
          If you like Lady Killer def see Picture a Snatcher. My personal fav movie of all time. The best part of Lafy Killer is when the guy comes from getting picked up by the cops andys he's all nervous he's like "oh you know they said what do you know about knocking over this joint...and what do u know about knocking over that joint..." He's so nervous it's really funny

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          • I do love Picture Snatcher.. it was a fun film.. as so many pre-code films were!!

            My favorite part is the gangsters nickname being Jerry "The Mug".. how classic is that!!!!

            Steadmund Brand
            "The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."- Lenny Bruce

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            • There is a local reference I like in the film "Blessed Event" where Edwin Maxwell is a gangster chieftain who is talking to Lee Tracy, and mentions that he and his construction company (his front) is in Jackson Heights, Queens (in New York City) where he and his wife and kids live. I love that reference because in 1932 it's considered a sleepy little town on the outskirts of the city. Jackson Heights is about five miles from Flushing, where I reside, and it's no longer so isolated (the subway runs through it) and it has more apartment houses than you can shake a stick at.

              Jeff

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              • Originally posted by Steadmund Brand View Post
                I do love Picture Snatcher.. it was a fun film.. as so many pre-code films were!!

                My favorite part is the gangsters nickname being Jerry "The Mug".. how classic is that!!!!

                Steadmund Brand
                Props to you for seeing it stead!

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                • I'm glad to see you had Winner Take All on your list ( if you read thru the posts you would see I am a boxing guy...) not one of my favorite fight films... but It does have Virginia Bruce ( A.K.A The Invisable Woman) in it... so that's a BIG plus for me... funny reading this list and thinking about these films makes me realize how much I did indeed love Cagneys work...more so than I even remembered....thanks again!!!

                  anyone for a new list? any suggestions??

                  Steadmund Brand
                  "The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."- Lenny Bruce

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                  • Sure, how about war movies

                    Patton
                    Where Eagles Dare
                    The Longest Day
                    Zulu

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                    • Great Idea!! now this could be a long list....I'll start with some silent films

                      1- Napoleon- 1927
                      2- The General- 1927
                      3- Battleship Potemkin- 1925 (Odessa steps gives me chills just thinking about it!!)
                      4- Intolerance -1915

                      Non silent.. condensed list to be sure but

                      5- Hell Is For Heros
                      6- The Young Lions
                      7- The Caine Mutiny
                      8- The Desert Fox
                      9- Tora! Tora! Tora!
                      10- Midway
                      11- Full Metal Jacket
                      12- The Great Escape
                      13- The Dirty Dozen
                      14- All Quiet on the Western Front
                      15- Lawrence of Aribia
                      16- Bridge on the River Kwai

                      so many I am missing.. hoping some others will fill in the blanks comments always welcome on my picks....

                      Steadmund Brand
                      "The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."- Lenny Bruce

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                      • Love war movies...

                        Ooh yes....

                        The Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare & more recently Fury with Brad Pitt.

                        Amanda

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                        • I seem to remember liking "The Duellists" on the one occasion that I saw it.

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                          • War Films

                            All Quiet on the Western Front (silent and sound versions of Lewis Milestone)
                            Gallipoli
                            Lawrence of Arabia
                            The Dawn Patrol
                            The Lost Patrol
                            Sahara
                            Khartoum
                            Four Feathers (1939)
                            Beau Geste (1939)
                            Zulu
                            Zulu Dawn
                            They Died With Their Boots On
                            Little Big Man
                            Gods and Generals
                            Glory
                            The Three Hundred Spartans (Richard Egan and Ralph Richardson)
                            Troy
                            Drums Along the Mohawk (the hints in the film about the Battle of Oriskenny - possibly the worst hand-to-hand conflict of the American Revolution)
                            Captain Horatio Hornblower
                            That Hamilton Woman
                            Waterloo
                            The Duelists
                            Austerlitz (just for completeness)
                            The Real Glory
                            The Fighting 69th
                            The Longest Day
                            A Bridge Too Far (the lesser side of Montgomery of Alemein)
                            Patton (warts and all of "Blood and Guts")
                            MacArthur (our other "Prima Donna" genius)
                            The Desert Rats
                            The Desert Fox
                            Tora, Tora, Tora
                            Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
                            Wake Island
                            They Were Expendable
                            Joan of Arc (Bergman)
                            St. Joan
                            Henry V
                            Henry V
                            The War Lord (aftermath of Hastings)
                            Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (savor Alan Hale's brief appearance as the great Lord Tyrone - who plays the idiot Essex like a piccolo!)
                            The Sea Hawk
                            Fire Over England
                            The Three Musketeers (1948)
                            The Three Musketeers (1975)
                            The Three Musketeers (1924)
                            [All of them for the 1628 siege of La Rochelle]
                            Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
                            Cyrano de Bergerac (French version)
                            [For events surrounding the French victory over Spain at Rocroi.]
                            The Last Valley (Michael Caine in the Thirties Years War - a rarity in film)
                            Potemkin
                            Oktober
                            The Pursuit of the Graf Spee
                            Sink the Bismarck
                            Run Silent Run Deep
                            Das Boot
                            The Great Escape
                            Le Grande Ilusion
                            The Big Parade
                            Wings
                            What Price Glory (1926)
                            The Alamo (1960)
                            War and Peace (1956)
                            War and Peace (1968)
                            Alexander the Great (1955)
                            Alexander the Great (recent film)
                            Caesar and Cleopatra
                            Spartacus

                            There are others.
                            One of my favorites is by Eisenstein, and has a celebrated fight on the ice in the middle ages. I can't recall the name.

                            Jeff

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                            • Eisenstein film

                              Fool that I was due to my poor memory - it was "Alexander Nevsky".

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                              • Originally posted by Steadmund Brand View Post
                                I'm glad to see you had Winner Take All on your list ( if you read thru the posts you would see I am a boxing guy...) not one of my favorite fight films... but It does have Virginia Bruce ( A.K.A The Invisable Woman) in it... so that's a BIG plus for me... funny reading this list and thinking about these films makes me realize how much I did indeed love Cagneys work...more so than I even remembered....thanks again!!!

                                anyone for a new list? any suggestions??

                                Steadmund Brand
                                Great post!! I assume you like city for conquest too!

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