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James Cagney | James 'Brick' Davis | |
Margaret Lindsay | Miss Kay McCord | |
Ann Dvorak | Jean Morgan Collins | |
Robert Armstrong | Jeffrey 'Jeff' McCord | |
Barton MacLane | Brad Collins | |
Lloyd Nolan | Hugh Farrell | |
William Harrigan | 'Mac' McKay, aka Joseph Lynch | |
Russell Hopton | Gerard | |
Edward Pawley | Danny Leggett | |
Noel Madison | Durfee | |
Marie Astaire | Gerard's Moll | |
Brooks Benedict | Man | |
Monte Blue | Fingerprint Expert | |
Stanley Blystone | Cop | |
Ward Bond | Gunman at Train Station | |
David Brian | The Chief | |
Raymond Hatton | Gangsters' Messenger with Warning | |
Harold Huber | Venke |
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Producer | Jack L. Warner
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Writer | Darryl F. Zanuck
Seton I. Miller |
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In 1931, James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. In 1935, he waged on-screen war against the nation's public enemies. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in "G" Men. Emphasis may have changed but elements are the same. "G" Men builds to a fury of bold escapes, siren-wailing pursuits and frenzied shootouts. "Anything worth newspaper space is worth a movie," Warner Bros. executive Lou Edelman declared. Here, a punchy hot-off-the-presses account of the pursuit and capture of John Dillinger provides the story inspiration as tough-guy Cagney gives it to 'em good in a movie that's "fast, gutsy, as simplistic and powerful as a tabloid headline" (Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide). |
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