Lady Killer
Time Out says
Cagney in comedy: a talent often forgotten when one thinks of this most energetically violent of actors. Here the story is tailor-made for his persona. He plays a hood who, for reasons of hiding out and making big money, goes to Hollywood; he serves his time in small parts (very funny, this), but by using the shrewdness and dishonesty he exploited in his life of crime (and writing enormous quantities of fan mail to himself), he graduates to star; whereupon his past threatens to catch up with him. The whole film is witty and fast, hurtled along by Cagney's stylish delivery, and offers a few sharply satirical swipes at Hollywood en route.
Details
Release details
Duration:
76 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Screenwriter:
Ben Markson, Lillie Hayward
Cast:
James Cagney
Mae Clarke
Leslie Fenton
Douglass Dumbrille
Margaret Lindsay
Henry O'Neill
Willard Robertson
George Chandler
Mae Clarke
Leslie Fenton
Douglass Dumbrille
Margaret Lindsay
Henry O'Neill
Willard Robertson
George Chandler