Yet, as Walsh makes plain, “you could kill a Cagney or a Bogart and still have a successful picture.” Why might that be, do you think? James Cagney and Gladys George in ‘The Roaring Twenties.’ Via the ...

James Cagney may be more strongly associated with the gangster movie than any other actor, having made several of the genre’s best films. The star was more than a film hoodlum, of course, getting his ...

James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart meet in the trenches of World War I and subsequently rise through the rackets, ending up on opposite sides in a gang war.