In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irrita...
Quick-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.
James 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.
A 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.
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
E.L. Doctorow, Michael Weller, Heinrich von Kleist
Cast
James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Plot
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.
Danny 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.
When 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.
Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, American Sign
Director
Joseph Pevney
Writer
R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Cast
James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
Plot
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
A 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.
Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Japanese
Director
Robert Montgomery
Writer
Beirne Lay Jr., Frank D. Gilroy
Cast
James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello
Plot
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Danny Kean, a former inmate, pursues photography and romance with Patricia, whose father initially disapproves. A ethical dilemma strains their bond until Kean confronts his criminal past.
Warren Duff, Robert Buckner, Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Cast
James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane
Plot
During 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.
A political appointee with a checkered past tries to institute constructive changes as the deputy commissioner at a cruel reform school but gets pushback from a sadistic warden and a suspicious judge who doesn't trust his motives.
An 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.
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
Arthur T. Horman, Richard Macaulay, Norman Reilly Raine
Cast
James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall
Plot
Inspired 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.
Independent 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.
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English, Spanish
Director
William Keighley
Writer
Richard Macaulay, Jerry Wald
Cast
James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien
Plot
Plagued 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.
