This man needs a thread. One of the greatest, purest actors in all of the cinema. My top 5 Cagney performances/pictures.
1. Yankee Doodle Dandy
2. One, Two, Three
3. Angels With Dirty Faces
4. The Public Enemy
5. Mister Roberts
*Honourable mention: The Oklahoma Kid.
All great movies and Cagney always stole the show in any film IMO. A marvelous screen actor.
You forgot:
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"Made it, ma. Top of the world!"
"What do ya want? A medal?" :wink:
Oh I didn't forget it but yes if I included one more, that would've been it. I quickly debated which one should get honourable mention... the grapefruit or the 'top of the world' and ultimately chose the former because I can watch that all day.
'Love Me or Leave Me'. Wonderful rapport as Doris Day's Gimp.
I've seen virtually every Cagney film, and he's never bad.
I actually thought more people would have something to say about Cagney. This surprised me.
I have only seen the public enemy....it was great and i thought he did a good job...Isn't he typecasted as a gangster character though?...i 'm not saying that's bad or anything i am just wondering....
He did a lot of gangster films, yeah, but if you watch films like Yankee Doodle Dandy and Mister Roberts, for example, you'll see he had a range that very few actors, if any, could compete with.
Or watch "Man Of A Thousand Faces" and watch him play Lon Chaney.
"Mister Roberts" is a must see, not only for Cagney, but for Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon. It always makes me cry.
Yeah, MP is a very powerful picture. LeRoy could bring out the very best of performances (even though they're naturals anyway).. "Random Harvest" is another good example I can think of for that. Watched it again recently.
Still surprised only 3 people have something to say about him. This is when its a little sad when current actors like.. I dunno, Philip S.H. has so many more people saying something. Cagney deserves better but hey :(