 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Harry Hayden, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Joe Downing, Edward Pawley
Father Jerry (Pat O'Brien) tries to help his parish kids develop honest characters. He runs into problems when his childhood friend, Rocky (James Cagney), introduces the children into the criminal side of life. Both Cagney and Director Michael Curtiz were nominated for Oscars.
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Castle on the Hudson 1940  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O'Neill, Jerome Cowan, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, John Litel, Willard Robertson, Edward Pawley
This remake of "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" involves prison inmate Tommy Gordon's (John Garfield) attempts to challenge Warden Long's (Pat O'Brien) prison reforms.
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Each Dawn I Die 1939 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Victor Jory, Stanley Ridges, Alan Baxter, Willard Robertson, Clay Clement, John Wray, Emma Dunn, Edward Pawley, Paul Hurst, Louis Jean Heydt
This prison melodrama centers around the attempted escape of crime boss "Hood" Stacey (George Raft) and the involvement of another prisoner, youthful reporter Frank Ross (James Cagney), who was framed for murder. Frank has appealed for parole but remains behind bars at Rocky Point Prison. He thinks that he has found a solution when he makes a deal to help "Hood" escape if "Hood" will help Frank prove his own innocence. "Hood" escapes but does nothing to help Frank until Frank's reporter girlfriend Joyce (Jane Bryan) steps in and convinces "Hood" to identify the real killer, Peter Kassock (John Wray), as the man who framed Frank. It turns out that Peter is also at Rocky Point Prison, and now his fate is sealed.
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Eyes of the Underworld 1943  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie, Lon Chaney Jr., Lloyd Corrigan, Don Porter, Billy Lee, Marc Lawrence, Edward Pawley, Joseph Crehan, Wade Boteler
Just as police chief Richard Bryan (Richard Dix) is about to obtain success in ridding his town of mobsters, his own past prison record comes back to haunt him.
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G-Men 1935 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Lloyd Nolan, Regis Toomey, Harold Huber, Raymond Hatton, Marc Lawrence, Barton MacLane, William Harrigan, Russell Hopton, Edward Pawley, Monte Blue, Addison Richards
James Cagney plays a good guy is this movie, which is perhaps William Keighley's best directing job. The plot follows the adventures of James "Brick" Davis (Cagney), a lawyer whose education was financed by crime boss "Mack" McKay (William Harrigan). Brick's roommate Eddie (Regis Toomey) becomes an F.B.I. agent but is later killed by gangster Danny Leggett (Edward Pawley) in a gang shooting. Now, Brick joins the F.B.I. as an agent where he is looked upon with suspicion because of his background ties to McKay. Nevertheless, Brick sets out to avenge the death of Eddie and follows a trail of murders that extends from New York to the Midwest. Based on Gregory Miller's book "Public Enemy No. 1."
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Mississippi 1935 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith, Gail Patrick, Claude Gillingwater, John Miljan, Edward Pawley, Fred Kohler, Dennis O'Keefe
With a Rogers and Hart score to back him, Bing Crosby shines as Tom Grayson who is rejected by his Philadelphia family and becomes a singer with the troupe on a Mississippi riverboat under the command of Commodore Jackson (W.C. Fields). This story was based on Booth Tarkington's "Magnolia."
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The Oklahoma Kid 1939 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp, Ward Bond, Harvey Stephens, Hugh Sothern, Charles Middleton, Edward Pawley, Trevor Bardette
This is an odd movie. Cagney is the good guy and Bogey is the villain in this Western saga. Cagney is a feared gunman who seeks revenge on the men who hanged his innocent father. A highlight of the film is the interlude when Cagney sings "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" accompanied by a honky-tonk piano and a pair of six-shooters.
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Prison Break 1938  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Barton MacLane, Glenda Farrell, Paul Hurst, Constance Moore, Ward Bond, Edward Pawley, Edmund MacDonald, Guy Usher, Victor Kilian, George Cleveland, Frank Darien, Glenn Strange
Tuna fisherman Joaquin (Barton MacLane) is wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to prison. He is up for early parole after being a model prisoner, but when he finds out that his movements will be limited, and he will not be allowed to marry his fiancee, he breaks out of prison and searches for the real killer.
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Romance on the Range 1942 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Linda Hayes, Edward Pawley, Harry Woods, Hal Taliaferro, Glenn Strange, Pat Brady, Bob Nolan
Bad guys who steal fur pelts are the worst kind. Murder results and Roy Rogers is after the killer. But wait, he's arrested for being the fur pelt thief. What will he do?
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Treasure Island 1934 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Lewis Stone, William V. Mong, Douglass Dumbrille, Charles "Chic" Sale, Charles McNaughton, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Breese, Olin Howland, Charles Irwin, Edward Pawley
In this good rendition of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale, South Seas adventures abound. Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) has obtained a treasure map from former pirate Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) following his death. Jim tells Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) and Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce) about the map, and the three of them book passage on a ship to recover the treasure. But problems lie ahead because among the ship's crew are pirates, including Long John Silver (Wallace Beery), who are plotting to get their hands on Jim's treasure map.
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| 1. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
2. Castle on the Hudson (1940)
3. Each Dawn I Die (1939)
4. Eyes of the Underworld (1943)
5. G-Men (1935)
6. Mississippi (1935)
7. The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
8. Prison Break (1938)
9. Romance on the Range (1942)
10. Treasure Island (1934)
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