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[Mayerling]

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

[RockySullivan]

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

[Mayerling]

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.

[RockySullivan]

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

[Steadmund Brand]

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

[Mayerling]

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

[RockySullivan]

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!

[Steadmund Brand]

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

[Paddy Goose]

Sure, how about war movies

Patton
Where Eagles Dare
The Longest Day
Zulu

[Steadmund Brand]

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

[Amanda]

Love war movies...

Ooh yes....

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

Amanda

[Robert]

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

[Mayerling]

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

[Mayerling]

Eisenstein film

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

[RockySullivan]

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!