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I enjoy this movie. Also I enjoy James Cagney. If you get the chance watch some Pre-Code films they are a lot of fun.
If you get the chance, check out Blonde Crazy (1931)
You're all right, kid. I like guys who are honest with themselves. Stay that way.
JAMES CAGNEY as EDDIE BARTLETT in THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939) dir. Raoul Walsh
I love his face
Taxi! (Roy Del Ruth, 1931)
This is so…lover boy coded I cannot
consoling myself over joan blondell's loss by thinking about her reunion with her pal james cagney in the shadow realm. they are cracking wise and getting up to antics.
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BUGSY MALONE (Alan Parker, 1976).
Alan Parker’s feature film directorial debut is really something special. A musical homage to 1930’s gangster movies with a cast made up entirely of children really shouldn’t work, but it does.
Gang warfare rages in Prohibition-era New York as hoods Fat Sam and Dandy Dan battle for supremacy in the city. Armed with newfangled splurge guns (whipped cream firing machine guns), it looks like Danny Dan’s mob is winning. Speakeasy owner Sam engages good guy Bugsy Malone to help in his fight against Dan, while Bugsy has his sights set on aspiring showgirl Blousey Brown.
Recalling both the classic Warner gangster flicks and early backstage musicals, Bugsy Malone is itself a film which largely avoids categorisation. It is a love letter to the Hollywood of the 1930s. The beautifully detailed sets of dimly lit back alleys and colourful speakeasies faithfully recalling the era of Cagney and Robinson. Paul Williams superb jazz inspired score provides perfect accompaniment to the visuals, while the witty, quick fire dialogue would befit a period screwball comedy. The soft focus camera work and plethora of brown on display gives the feel of an old sepia tone photograph and adds to the era atmosphere.
An assured and charismatic performance from Scott Baio as Bugsy is surprisingly his first screen appearance. As was true of much of the cast. Florrie Dugger is touchingly melancholic as Bugsy’s gal Blousey in her only movie, while John Cassisi embodies gleeful roguishness as Fat Sam, one of only a handful of acting roles for the youngster. Only Jodie Foster, in the supporting role of showgirl cum moll Tallulah, was a veteran performer and gives the first rate professional performance you would expect. But to the credit of the cast and director Parker, none of the kids put a foot wrong and are never upstaged by the more experienced star.
There really is nothing else like Bugsy Malone in cinema history. As artful as it is entertaining and equally enjoyable for children and grownups; a unique, unadulterated pleasure from beginning to end!
Visit my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME for a longer, more in-depth review of Bugsy Malone! Link below.
Wet Dream: James Cagney
I was 4 the first time I saw him, and fell in love forever.
If I looked in a room and this gorgeous man was sitting there waiting for me, I think I would melt in a puddle right then and there!
