i am a big cagney fan, and i am accustomed to AMC playing quality prints of classic movies, so you can understand my disappointment in seeing these poor quality transfers, especially since it says "digitally remastered" on the front cover. save your money and hopefully a remastered set of cagney movies will appear soon.
This is a great 4 movie 2 DVD set - from AMC Movies series!
American Movie Classics (AMC) Movies presents a digitally remastered "Hollywood Classics" series.
This installment is James Cagney in 4 very enjoyable less known movies of this infamous dramatic , song & dance actor.
Summary: Disc 1 : includes feature "Blood on the Sun" (1945, 98 minutes) Cagney plays NICK CONDON a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo, discovers the Japanese plan to bomb the United States. Cagney is delightful and this film has a fast moving plot. the 2nd feature is, "Time of Your Life" (1948, 105 minutes) Joe T (Cagney) leads a whimsical cast of lovable characters in a San Francisco waterfront bar. Disc 2 : the 1st feature "Great Guys" (1936, 75 minutes) Corruption and violence have gnawed away at democratic society. Cagney plays Johnny Cave a U.S. Weights and Measures official trying to right the wrong using his brains, fists and attitude to battle the truth and justice against crookrd city politicians. A great flick!!! and finally the 4th feature, "Something To Sing About" (1937, 93 minutes) A musical comedy Cagney is a New York Band Leader Terry Rooney, journeys to Hollywood looking for a movie break. (This is a fun lovable story - early display of Cagneys dancing ability - later winning an Oscar in "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
Extras a fun fact question about each movie.
This is a great Cagney package, good quality, all black/white Standard format. Great addition to the DVD library. Enjoy.
James Cagney thrills in a rare (and limber) song-and-dance performance as composer-entertainer George M. Cohan. This nostalgic biography is told in flashbacks, covering Cohan's formative years becoming Broadway's brightest star and touching upon his loves, musicals, and artistic triumphs. Director Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood) offers Cagney ample opportunities to invent an utterly charming performance in what is practically a one-man show. If you've never seen Cagney as a hoofer, you're in for a treat: his dancing is as dynamic as anything else he's ever done on screen. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): James Cagney - Joan Leslie - Walter Huston Director(s): Michael Curtiz DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A neat World War II thriller, 13 Rue Madeleine benefits from the postwar craze for shooting outside the studio. With Quebec doubling for occupied France, this is a spy movie with a sense of open air. James Cagney plays an OSS agent, training his recruits for an important pre-D-Day mission. When one of them turns out to be a Nazi spy, Cagney must parachute into France himself and straighten things out. Director Henry Hathaway and producer Louis de Rochemont pioneered the docu-drama approach with The House on 92nd Street, and they again use newsreel footage and stentorian narrator here, blended into the fictional story. The script is slightly muddled, but there are a fistful of suspenseful situations and a gangbusters ending--as well as the typically wired-up Cagney, who is... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): James Cagney Director(s): Henry Hathaway DVD Release Date: Released the 20 May 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Henry Fonda re-created his Broadway hit for this 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)--an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy--and the results are exceptionally fine. A perfect cast, including James Cagney's irascible captain, William Powell's thoughtful physician, and Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning Ensign Pulver, give Fonda the right boost to portray his ennui-burdened officer with dignity, self-effacing humor, and not a trace of self-pity. A wonderful film. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Henry Fonda - James Cagney Director(s): John Ford - Joshua Logan - Mervyn LeRoy DVD Release Date: Released the 22 December 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The highlight of Mutiny on the Bounty is undoubtedly Charles Laughton's bracingly evil performance as Captain Bligh, a man so mean that he insists on having a dead sailor flogged. Bligh pushes his men beyond physical endurance, slashes their rations for his own profit, and drastically cuts down their frolicking time with scantily clad Tahitians. Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for arrives: first mate Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) hits his limit and all hell breaks loose. Gable holds doggedly onto his American accent through the entire movie, but in a way it makes Christian come off as a Regular Guy in opposition to Bligh's institutionalized cruelty. Once you get past the hurdle of his diphthongs, Gable makes an excellent Fletcher Christian--strong, fair, and noble,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Charles Laughton - Clark Gable - Franchot Tone Director(s): Frank Lloyd DVD Release Date: Released the 03 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Ranked at No. 30 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 all-time greatest American films, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a genuine masterpiece that was, ironically, a box-office failure when released in 1948. At that time audiences didn't accept Humphrey Bogart in a role that was intentionally unappealing, but time has proven this to be one of Bogart's very best performances. It's a grand adventure and a superior character study built around the timeless themes of greed and moral corruption. As adapted by writer-director John Huston (from a novel by enigmatic author B. Traven) it became a definitive treatment of fate and futility in the obsessive pursuit of wealth. Bogart plays Fred C. Dobbs, a down-and-out wage-worker in Mexico who stakes his meager earnings on a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart - Walter Huston - Tim Holt Director(s): John Huston DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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