katyscar11ett Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Yeah, I know this is really a stretch - but I noticed someone else asked about your favorite Bogart movie so if it can be done with Bogie - - - - lol I have been having a ball today - have waited for today since the schedule was posted for August! Love Cagney and everything he touched. Love all the "usuals" - Angels with Dirty Faces (always cry at the end), White Heat, Yankee Doodle Dandy etc. - and I always figure one of those "has to" be my favorite - but you know, every time I see Each Dawn I Die, I just know that it really IS my favorite. Could it be because I truly love George Raft as well? I think that has something to do with it - but isn't the entire reason. I also really love The Strawberry Blonde - one of the best movies ever, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 It depends on what I'm watching. Now I'm watching 'White Heat' so thats my favorite now, but this morning I was loving 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 I like Cagney in "Shake Hands With The Devil". Be sure to watch that one. Excellent flick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Thanks for the tip jdhale, I havn't seen that one. Its on at 1:45AM here in NY, so I may record it and watch tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsallieharding Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 His film, One, Two, Three (1961)**** is my favorite. It is about a Coca-Cola company man in West Germany who panics when the Coca-Cola heiress marries a communist. It is directed by Billy Wilder so you know it's great. It aired on TCM about a year ago, its fast dialogue keeps the movie going, never letting up. I believe this was Cagneys last movie, I know he hated working on it because of the fast pace of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katyscar11ett Posted August 3, 2005 Author Share Posted August 3, 2005 I am so glad you posted that about One, Two, Three. I had that question come up in Trivial Pursuit (Movie edition) and didn't think it sounded very good - now I will definitely look out for it. Great tip. Thx. Also thanks for the heads up about Shake Hands with the Devil, another one I wasn't gonna bother with - but I taped it last night and will watch it today. I learn so much from these boards and really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyweekes70 Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Picture Snatcher is my favourtie. I've been a Cagney fan for over twenty years and thank goodness TCM is around to allow people to see stuff like Picture Snatcher, The Mayor of Hell, Taxi!, and even The St. Louis Kid. There's so much to Cagney's screen prescence beyond Public Enemy, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Angels with Dirty Faces. Another favourite is Torrid Zone. What a hilarious film. Cagney is one of the greats, and deserves his due on DVD, though I understand Warners is preparing a Cagney set. If it could only contain everything he did at Warners (though he might not have agreed), I'd certainly be happy. His early work was fast, snappy, mostly ridiculous and certainly not PC. When he died, I was watching The Ten Commandents and the hourly update mentioned his passing. Too bad his last work was Terrible Joe Moran. He should have left it at Ragtime and went out in style. The thing I like most about Cagney is that his screen persona was the exact opposite of the man himself, even down to his eyeliner and darkened eyebrows. A quiet, gentle fellow who loved horses as much as his wife. Good men come few and far between and it's really quite interesting that Cagney is best remembered for being one of the screen's greatest creeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alix1929 Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 I love Cagney! Here are a couple of my favorites, because there was no way to limit them to just one! **Blonde Crazy** is a wonderful pre-Code with Joan Blondell as his costar! You just have to hear him say, "hooooonnnnneeey!" in this one. **Footlight Parade** is a yummy Busby Berkley with Cagney in the lead. **Hard to Handle** is a wonderful one with him as a scam artist. Actually, any of his pre-Codes are great. I even like his first film, Sinners Holiday, as it shows how good he was, even in the beginning (Joan Blondell is also pretty darn good here too). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyweekes70 Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 I wonder why TCM hasn't aired Winner Take All, Hard to Handle, Frisco Kid, or Ceiling Zero in at least three years that I know. They must just get lost in the shuffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njprecode Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 There are a lot of great Cagney movies, but my favorite is still White Heat. That ol' bad boy psycho Cody Jarrett with the mommy devotion, what a movie and performance! Can't forget the luscious Virgina Mayo either, who my dad met in 1945 on the set of the studio she was working in at the time, lucky dad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyweekes70 Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 "the luscious Virgina Mayo" -- You bet. Lucky Dad indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zooty127 Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 Im a BIG Cagney fan! Faves...THE PUBLIC ENEMY, THE ROARING 20S, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, WHITE HEAT, G MEN, THE BRIDE CAME COD, 13 RUE MADELEINE, YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, MISTER ROBERTS & RAGTIME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviegeek3000 Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 WHITE HEAT THE PUBLIC ENEMY ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES BLOOD ON THE SUN TORRID ZONE THE ROARING TWENTIES GREAT GUY I like them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katyscar11ett Posted August 5, 2005 Author Share Posted August 5, 2005 Speaking of White Heat - - when it was being discussed the announcer said something about Cagney having an "oedipus complex" in this movie. I've been doing a lot of thinking about it since and even though Cody Jarrett was a psycho and a jerk, I think he was just close to his mother - but not necessarily in a twisted, demented way. Yes, she was as unlawful as he was and he definitely loved her a lot but I felt he was in love with Virginia Mayo - well as in love as Cody could be - and didn't feel anything "strange" about his mother. Which makes me wonder, especially at the time, why males who had a close relationship to their mothers were always looked at a sickos. Maybe the announcer was joking, maybe serious, I don't know - but I'm curious what y'all think. I wonder what the book said about it - assuming White Heat is a book. I know that there were supposed to be homosexual innuendos in the book The Maltese Falcon that I have never thought/think of when I see the movie. Maybe there's more to this than I ever thought about, as well?! Comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyweekes70 Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 Usually an oedipus complex demands a psychosexual love for the parent of the opposite sex and hatred for the parent of the same sex. I can't remember Cody's feelings for his late father but his attitude towards his mother was definitely something Freud would have appreciated. I don't like Freud. His term superego, I think, was just self-projection. I like White Heat, however, but I think it overshadows so many other great Cagney performances---all his psychos do. Its unfortunate when an actor gets pigeon-holed for things they personally didn't approve of. The only reason Cagney made White Heat was to restore a failing image the result of lackluster pictures his brother produced. They were going to film White Heat but didn't have the money. It would have been a very different film if it hadn't been made at Warners. And speaking of psychos, nobody really talks about Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, arguably Cagney's wickedest and vicious character, utterly devoid of the notions of affection Cody Jarrett had. One can only marval at the evilness Cagney slipped into his characters---coming from an otherwise quiet, decent chap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 my favorites are: Strawberry Blonde White Heat G-Men Angels with Dirty Faces Love Me or Leave me Man of a thousand Faces Ragtime Yankee Doodle Dandy 13 Rue Madeline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 i forgot to include oops, One, Two, Three, hilarious love it! Public Enemy Mister Roberts (That darn Palm Tree he loved it like a pet) gut busting scenes with that tree!!!!!!! loliteblue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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