Tag: James Cagney

James Cagney stars in the gangster classic from Raoul Walsh

‘White Heat’ – James Cagney on top of the world on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, gangsters, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, thriller 05/13/201905/14/2019 Sean Axmaker

“Made it, ma. Top of the world!” One of the greatest gangster classics of all time, White Heat (1949) stars James Cagney in an explosive performance as psychotic career criminal Cody Jarrett, driven over the edge by blinding headaches and murderous rages that only his mother can calm. Until, that is, she’s murdered while he’s […]

James Cagney and Jean Harlow star in the gangster classic by William Wellman

‘The Public Enemy’ – James Cagney’s original gangster on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, gangsters, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, pre-code, SVOD 08/12/201801/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

James Cagney became an overnight sensation as the streetwise dynamo Tom Powers, a Chicago slum kid turned brutal mob goon in The Public Enemy (1931), William A. Wellman’s archetypal gangster classic. In the first depression-era films of the mob rats blasting their way to big screen glory like Molotov cocktails, Cagney’s Tom Powers was the […]