'G' Men

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'G' Men

If you like watching the old cops and robbers battle in old black and white...you'll like "G" Men. Plus James Cagney helps put realism in this drama concerning the infancy of the F.B.I. A young man raised and educated by a gangland kingpin switches to the side of the law and becomes entangled with the government's battle with organized crime. Tough and realist chase and gun play. Cagney is Cagney and leads a pretty good list of stars in this tense classic. Cast includes: Margaret Lindsay, Lloyd Nolan, William Harrigan, Ann Dvorak and Regis Toomey.

Here we have a great little Pre Code Film-Noir movie starring the great James Cagney who plays a Lawyer who turns FBI agent to help find and fight the Murderer of his old Pal who once led the Mob who kill him. He had been close to Cagney and had in fact paid for Cagney's training and then retired himself from his mob days and gone up country to live his life outside the trouble he once caused. Cagney does indeed give an expert lead into finding and bringing those to justice that he was once kinda connected to. Cagney has two Ladies alongside him in this flick the Lovely Margaret Lindsey and Ann Dvorak, both equally Beautiful and pretty good actresses. Overall a very good Noir and a short 85 minutes long. well worth a watch and to see Cagney on the right side of the law for a change.

This is definitely Jimmy Cagney's film all the way. He is superb in it and his acting actually makes the rest of the cast better in support. Cagney was such a great actor he would always help elevate others performances in his films and he does so very much in this one. This film is well done for it's time though it looks a little flawed with age now. The story is actually based upon a real FBI case in the early 30's. It stretches the truth after a while in order to fit the task. The gun fight sequence towards the end is amazingly violent yet most of the what seems to be thousands of shots fired seem to miss everything. This is one of many films that established Warner Brothers as :Gangster Films Inc" during the 30's & 40's. It is a strong entry which was well produced for a 1935 (early) film. It treats it's subject pretty well. If you like Cagney, this is a film you must see to understand how far he had already developed his acting skills in 1935.

"G" Men (1935) *** (out of 4) Raised by a gangster as a child, James Cagney grows up to be a lawyer but after a friend's murdered by the mob he decides to join the FBI. This film is a tad bit overrated in my opinion because we've seen this type of thing from Warner quite a few times but there are a few nice elements that make it worth watching at least once. Cagney turns in another wonderful performance but to be fair, he rarely turns in anything but. The supporting cast are pretty good but there's no doubt this is Cagney's picture all the way. There are several wonderful shoot outs, which are a lot of fun and the ending is also very nice.

Here's an old-time (about 75 years old!) gangster movie that is fast-moving as all James Cagney crime films tend to be. In here, Cagney is the good guy, a "government man" out to get crooks, one of whom turns out to be his old pal. All the characters in here are pretty interesting, particularly Cagney's boss played by Robert Armstrong. Watching this film, one discovers an interesting fact: government agents weren't allowed to use guns in the early days. That didn't change until things got totally out of control with too many defenseless lawmen getting killed. Margaret Lindsay also stars in this movie, and that's a good thing. The more I see of her, the more I like her. It would have been interesting to see what roles she'd play if she was a young actress in today's films. Finally, the action scenes in this film reminded me of the old television series, "The Untouchables" with the machine guns blazing out of those big, boxy 1930 automobiles.