Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Prohibition"

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The Roaring Twenties ***** (1939, James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 3677

Director Raoul Walsh’s essential, rousing 1939 gangster movie stars James Cagney in one of his key roles. It’s a tale of three buddies trying survive in Prohibition America after fighting together in World War One. Cagney […]

May, 08

Pocketful of Miracles *** (1961, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O’Connell, Peter Falk, Thomas Mitchell, Ann-Margret) – Classic Movie Review 2744

For his final movie Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, director Frank Capra remakes his 1933 hit Lady for a Day, this time casting Glenn Ford as superstitious bootlegger mobster Dave the Dude and Bette Davis as […]

Jul, 27

I Walk Alone **** (1948, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2158

Lizabeth Scott relishes another of her key roles as torch singer Kay Lawrence, sandwiched between two Hollywood greats – Burt Lancaster as tough guy Frankie Madison who returns to New York after 14 years in […]

Feb, 07

The Public Enemy ***** (1931, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 1590

Hooray for one of James Cagney’s most iconic and brilliant performances as Tom Powers, a fiery, hot-tempered lad from the Chicago slums who grows up to be a young hoodlum and rises high up through the […]

Aug, 25

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