January 2008
Wednesday January 2
2:45 PM The Woman in White (Godfrey, 1948) - BW-109 mins. - A mystery with a ghostly twinge. Gig Young stars with Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, and Agnes Moorehead. The supporting cast alone makes the movie interesting. Unavailable on DVD and a Warner Bros. property.
8:00 PM Sinners’ Holiday (Adolfi, 1930) - BW-60 mins. - James Cagney is TCM’s January Star of the Month and his debut feature, not yet on DVD, kicks off the festivities. A year later, The Public Enemy would deservedly catapult Cagney to stardom. Interestingly, Al Jolson purchased the film rights to the Broadway version of Sinners’ Holiday and only allowed the movie to be made if Cagney and Joan Blondell were in the cast. It’s funny to realize that we have Jolson to thank for Cagney’s start. Another Warner Bros. film.
Thursday January 3
6:45 AM The Crowd Roars (Hawks, 1932) - BW-70 mins. - More early Cagney and Blondell, this time from Howard Hawks and in a race-car drama. An alternate (French) language version was made with Jean Gabin in Cagney’s starring role. IMDB shows Warner Bros. as the company for both, neither on DVD yet.
12:30 PM Show People (Vidor, 1928) - BW-79 mins. - Five films starring Hearst love and Kane inspiration Marion Davies show up on TCM this afternoon. It looks like this is the cream of the crop, a silent comedy gem also starring William Haines. She’s a Georgian hillbilly (so hilarious to laugh at Southern people!) who goes out to Hollywood to make a name for herself. IMDB mentions that Gloria Swanson served as an inspiration for the film. Sounds intriguing and worth a look, if nothing else for the presence of director King Vidor. An MGM film, with WB now controlling DVD rights and currently unreleased.
Friday January 4
10:15 PM Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Polonsky, 1969) - C-98 mins. - The blacklisted writer/director Abraham Polonsky made the devastating Force of Evil starring John Garfield in 1948 and wasn’t able to secure a feature directing credit again until this film, starring Robert Redford and Katharine Ross in the same year as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Robert Blake plays a Native American pursued by sheriff Redford for killing Ross’ father in self-defense, in a story based on real-life events. I saw this years ago and was probably too young to appreciate the film, but it has a very good reputation. Surprisingly unavailable on DVD, Universal owns the rights. TCM is airing a trio of solid Redford films, with The Natural and Three Days of the Condor as bookends.
2:00 AM Skidoo (Preminger, 1968) - C-98 mins. - Rejoice, the rarely seen and even more rarely broadcast Skidoo looks to be actually shown on television. Would you like to see a movie starring, among others, Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Groucho Marx (as God, no less), Mickey Rooney, Peter Lawford and three (!) “Batman” villains (Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, and Frank Gorshin)? Me too! Add a bit of LSD for good measure and you’ve got one of the strangest films ever made by a renowned director. Even the upcoming Preminger retrospective at New York’s Film Forum isn’t showing the film. A Paramount film, no DVD has been released.
Saturday January 5
4:00 PM Hell in the Pacific (Boorman, 1968) - C-102 mins. - Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune stuck on an island together near the end of World War II. An underrated classic that was Marvin and director John Boorman’s follow-up to the previous year’s Point Blank. There are a couple of different endings, but I’d think TCM will show the more explosive one that Boorman didn’t approve of instead of the alternate finale found on DVD. (Yep, they did.) Anchor Bay released it first in R1, but their version went out of print to make room for MGM’s release. Neither do the movie justice though, failing to anamorphically enhance the 2.35:1 picture. Even worse is a R2 release that’s fullscreen.
11:15 PM I Married a Witch (Clair, 1942) - BW-77 mins. - After making a series of inspired French comedies like Le Million and À nous la liberté, director René Clair began working in English, first on The Ghost Goes West in 1935 (forthcoming on R2 DVD from Network), and then moving on to Hollywood fare like The Flame of New Orleans and this film. The consensus seems to be that Clair lost something in the process, but this charming little picture starring Veronica Lake as a witch works quite well. The idea is that Lake and her father Cecil Kellaway were burned long ago and she put a curse on the prosecutor’s male ancestors. When she falls in love with the current generation descendant (Fredric March), things get sticky. Susan Hayward co-stars as March’s bride-to-be. Preston Sturges actually served as one of the film’s producers, but refused screen credit after an argument with Clair. Despite the film’s relative popularity and merits, Warner Bros. hasn’t yet put it out on DVD, though Spanish and French versions do exist for those multi-region impatients.
Sunday January 6
8:15 AM Interlude (Sirk, 1957) - C-90 mins. - Probably for Sirk fans mostly, but still worth mentioning. The master of melodrama directed this adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel and put June Allyson in the lead role. She goes to Germany and finds love with a married conductor and an American doctor practicing in Munich. I haven’t seen a lot of encouraging comments on the film, but its unavailability on DVD warranted a heads-up. Rights are controlled by Universal. EDIT - Interlude seems to have been the victim of a schedule change and didn’t make it onto the air.
Monday January 7
4:30 AM American Matchmaker (Ulmer, 1940) - BW-87 mins. - Or Americaner Shadchen. Poverty Row filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer’s last Yiddish film prior to making the cross-country trek to Hollywood, this was written by his wife Shirley and stars Leo Fuchs as a Jewish-American who’s working on his 8th engagement. The 26 votes at IMDB lead me to believe the movie doesn’t get shown a lot and it’s not everyday that TCM puts on a Yiddish language selection. Amazon has a DVD of the film for sale that seems to originate from the National Center for Jewish Film, but it’s really expensive at $36 retail and I have no idea on the quality (though a reviewer there was unhappy with the subtitles).
Tuesday January 8 - Happy Birthday Elvis! The King would have been 73 today. TCM celebrates with the concert film Elvis: That’s the Way It Is 2001 and 7 of his starring vehicles. I think I’ll celebrate with a peanut butter and banana sandwich.
Wednesday January 9
2:45 AM Blonde Crazy (Del Ruth, 1931) - BW-80 mins. - A back-to-back pair of James Cagney-Joan Blondell films starts here and ends with Lloyd Bacon’s He Was Her Man following at 4:15 AM. Neither are on DVD and both are rather short and sound great. He’s a cocky bellhop and she’s his chambermaid girlfriend who helps him con hotel guests in Blonde Crazy. The second film is more serious, with Cagney as a ex-con safecracker who sets up the men responsible for his prison sentence. When things go awry, Cagney must go on the run but gets distracted by ex-prostitute Blondell. These two are both Warner Bros. pictures, and hopefully more of Cagney’s early work makes it to DVD this year (in addition to the upcoming Gangsters Collection Vol. 3 that will prominently feature the electric actor).
Thursday January 10
12:00 PM The Conspirators (Negulesco, 1944) - BW-102 mins. - Two years after Casablanca, Warner Bros. reunited Paul Henreid with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre for a love story about a freedom fighter who flees the Nazis in a neutral European city. The intent is obvious. Hedy Lamarr is top-billed as the love interest. I’m not much on Henreid generally, but you can’t go wrong with the other three. This one’s not on DVD.
2:00 PM Joan of Paris (Stevenson, 1942) - BW-92 mins. - “A waitress risks her life to help downed pilots escape occupied France.” Michèle Morgan, the French actress who starred in Marcel Carne’s Port of Shadows (Le Quai des brumes), plays the title character and Paul Henreid continues his 8-film tribute on TCM this afternoon with a lead role as well. The great Laird Cregar portrays a Nazi identified as “Herr Funk” and Alan Ladd has a small part too. An RKO picture, Warner Bros. hasn’t released it on DVD.
Friday January 11
9:00 AM Strange Cargo (Borzage, 1940) - BW-114 mins. - I’m going to keep picking films directed by Frank Borzage and unavailable on DVD until I either run out of titles or catch up on the director’s filmography. This one stars the reliable team of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. Gable is a Devil’s Island convict who escapes with other inmates, including Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre and Ian Hunter as a Christ-like figure. It was made for MGM, and is unreleased on DVD will be included in the upcoming WB Joan Crawford Collection Vol.2.
3:00 PM Ada (Mann, 1961) - C-109 mins. - Director Daniel Mann followed up Butterfield 8 with another ridiculous plot, here starring Dean Martin as a candidate, then governor who beds and marries prostitute Susan Hayward. Ralph Meeker and Martin Balsam headline the supporting cast. This was the kind of interesting trash Hollywood loved to make before the production code was eliminated. I’m interested in watching this for the intriguing cast, but my expectations are decidedly low. MGM is listed as the original distributor, meaning Warner Bros. should control the DVD rights. They trickled out the previous Mann-Hayward vehicle I’ll Cry Tomorrow late last year so I guess a release is possible somewhere down the road.
6:30 PM Out of the Fog (Litvak, 1941) - BW-86 mins. - John Garfield is a hood who tries to extort a couple of working class fishermen while romancing the daughter (Ida Lupino) of one of the men. Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen provide solid support as Jonah and Olaf, the two extortion victims. With a screenplay by Robert Rossen and the fine cast, the film is a bit of a letdown but still worthwhile. Maybe it was too early for the noir effect to have hit, causing a little too much melodrama and not enough intrigue here. Warner Bros. released the film in theaters, but haven’t put it out on DVD yet.
Sunday January 13
6:30 AM Shopworn (Grinde, 1932) - BW-66 mins. - A little pre-code Barbara Stanwyck film where she’s a waitress who falls for a wealthy young man. Regis Toomey and Zasu Pitts co-star and the screenplay is by Robert Riskin and Jo Swerling. IMDB lists the running time at 72 minutes, a bit longer than what TCM has down (the 66 minutes I have here is from the channel’s Now Playing program guide). Hopefully one is a mistake and the 6 minutes aren’t cut for any reason. It’s a Columbia picture so a DVD from Sony is unlikely, and I doubt TCM will air it with much frequency.
2:00 AM Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966) - C-83 mins. - Seijun Suzuki’s crazy yakuza film is a treat, but Criterion’s early DVD is one of their worst - it’s non-anamorphic and the transfer is lousy. I’ve seen the spruced-up print TCM shows and it’s miles better. If this isn’t Suzuki’s best among his Nikkatsu output, it’s pretty close. A great introduction to the director’s madcap style and just a fine piece of filmmaking.
Monday January 14
10:00 AM Mystery House (Smith, 1938) - BW-57 mins. - Here’s Ann Sheridan in a low-budget movie she made for Warner Bros. the same year as Angels with Dirty Faces. The idea of a detective (played by Dick Purcell, who went on to play Captain America in a 1944 serial) in a house full of murder suspects doesn’t sound very original, but it’s not often you run across features that are less than an hour long. Well, not with Ann Sheridan at least. It’s unavailable on DVD. The Last Gangster, starring the unlikely combination of Edward G. Robinson and James Stewart, follows at 11:00 AM.
3:45 PM The Secret Bride (Dieterle, 1935) - BW-64 mins. - I can’t resist picking Stanwyck films from the ’30s when they’re not on DVD. She plays the daughter of a governor who must keep her marriage a secret because the new husband is the state attorney general trying to convict her father of taking bribes. A little convoluted, but, hey, it’s a slow week. This one’s Warner Bros.
8:00 PM Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2008) - BW&C-90 mins. - TCM’s big January premiere is this feature-length documentary made by critic and Film Society of Lincoln Center programmer Kent Jones, with narration and above-the-title help from Martin Scorsese. Lewton was a producer at RKO in the early 1940’s who was behind creepy atmospheric classics like Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and my personal favorite The Leopard Man. On January 29th, Warner Bros. is releasing this special on DVD both by itself and packaged with their excellent Lewton set from a few years back.
Tuesday January 15
1:15 PM Lost Angel (Rowland, 1943) - BW-91 mins. - Something about this movie intrigued me, though I’m not familiar with it at all. Famous child actress Margaret O’Brien (who gets 6 3 films on TCM’s schedule this afternoon, including Jules Dassin’s The Canterville Ghost) plays a very young girl genius who realizes she’s missed out on a few of life’s magical mysteries and ventures out on her own. It looks like O’Brien was only about 6 years old when this was made so I’m really amazed that she could have carried a movie at that age. It’s not on DVD, was made for MGM, and should now be controlled by Warner Bros.
8:00 PM The Landlord (Ashby, 1970) - C-110 mins. - Hopefully I’ll clear away some time for writing about Hal Ashby in the future because he’s one of my favorites and someone who doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Probably most famous for directing Harold and Maude, Ashby also made the truly great Being There and The Last Detail, but struggled after the end of the 1970s and died much too young at the age of 59, in 1988. He got his start in Hollywood as editor for Norman Jewison, including winning an Oscar for In the Heat of the Night, and Jewison helped Ashby secure financing for his directorial debut The Landlord. The strange premise of the film concerns Beau Bridges as the rich and spoiled owner of a Brooklyn tenement building. For some reason, the movie isn’t available on DVD. It was released by United Artists originally and MGM now has distribution rights.
Wednesday January 16
10:15 AM The Citadel (Vidor, 1938) - BW-113 mins. - I have to plead ignorant here also and I’ll admit that I probably won’t be watching this showing because medical-centric films and television shows don’t interest me. Regardless, King Vidor’s films are usually worthwhile and Robert Donat was Oscar-nominated for his role here as an English doctor torn between a struggling practice on his own terms and exploiting the rich in a more lucrative setting. Made for MGM, Warner Bros. has the DVD rights and hasn’t yet released the film on disc.
4:15 AM Taxi! (Del Ruth, 1932) - BW-69 mins. - Star of the month James Cagney gets a night dedicated to the musicals he made. This isn’t a pure musical for sure, but does have a dance number between Cagney and co-star Loretta Young. He plays a cab driver trying to fend off intimidation from a syndicate. A solid good guy role for Cagney. The Warner Bros. film is not on DVD.
Friday January 18
8:00 AM The File on Thelma Jordon (Siodmak, 1949) - BW-100 mins. - Very excited to see this on the schedule, apparently TCM’s premiere showing. Barbara Stanwyck (again!) is the femme fatale title character, who seduces a DA (played by Wendell Corey) right before her aunt is found dead. A gem of a film noir, directed by the unsung master of the style Robert Siodmak. This was made for Paramount and I believe they still control it. It’s not on DVD, which just slightly opens up the door for Criterion since they’ve already shown interest in Siodmak (The Killers) and Stanwyck (The Lady Eve) and recently hinted that Anthony Mann’s The Furies, also with Stanwyck, is forthcoming.
Sunday January 20
2:30 AM Mississippi Mermaid (Truffaut, 1969) - C-124 mins. - Based on a Cornell Woolrich/William Irish novel, the story involves a plantation owner and his mail-order bride with a secret. It’s one of François Truffaut’s more Hitchcock-like films and contains a pairing of iconic French actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. There are DVDs in R1 and R2 from MGM, though the R1 isn’t anamorphic and neither look great in this DVD Beaver comparison.
Monday January 21
9:00 AM The World, the Flesh and the Devil (MacDougall, 1959) - BW-95 mins. - Harry Belafonte is trapped in a cave-in and emerges to find a post-nuclear world with only Inger Stevens and Mel Ferrer left alive. TCM is celebrating the Martin Luther King holiday by airing a day’s worth of films that prominently feature black actors. Belafonte also stars in Odds Against Tomorrow, which follows at 10:45 AM and is available on DVD from MGM. This film, however, is not on DVD. It was released by MGM theatrically and the current video rights should rest with Warner Bros.
12:30 PM Paris Blues (Ritt, 1961) - BW-99 mins. - It’s been a few years since I’ve seen this all the way through, but I remember it as a personal favorite. Having Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier star with Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll, plus Louis Armstrong, certainly helps. Newman and Poitier play jazz musicians in Paris. Duke Ellington provided the original music. Originally distributed by United Artists, MGM now controls DVD rights.
4:15 PM Edge of the City (Ritt, 1957) - BW-86 mins. - Director Martin Ritt had already worked with Sidney Poitier prior to Paris Blues. He first teamed the actor with John Cassavetes and Jack Warden here for his directorial debut about corruption and racism amid the New York City docks. Echoes of On the Waterfront, but Ritt himself had faced considerable turmoil from the Hollywood blacklist and his jump into film was a daring one. The movie is a little-seen gem that has somehow yet to find a place on DVD. Made for MGM, DVD rights are most likely held by Warner Bros.
8:00 PM Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977) - BW-83 mins. - Charles Burnett’s brilliant, long-unseen feature debut emerged last year as a triumph in theaters and on a definitive two-disc DVD from Milestone. The very loose narrative of a lower middle class family man struggling to balance the tired realities of his job in a slaughterhouse with the increasing demands of his home life is difficult to accurately describe but easy to appreciate. It’s not for people who require an abundance of plot, but those who enjoy films of rich humanity and fans of the Italian neorealist movement will hopefully warm to Killer of Sheep. In a rare move, TCM has given Burnett the entire night. The three shorts and feature film My Brother’s Wedding that can be found on the Milestone DVD set will also air, with all five being repeated later in the evening.
Tuesday January 22
8:00 PM Park Row (Fuller, 1952) - BW-84 mins. - Samuel Fuller couldn’t get Daryl Zanuck and 20th Century-Fox to bankroll his story of an early New York City newspaper man so he put his own money into the film. It became one of Fuller’s most passionate projects, but remains little-seen today. Guest programmer John Sayles convinced TCM to air the film tonight and thousands of fans are forever grateful. It was originally released by United Artists so logic says MGM should now own the rights unless something unusual is at play. I don’t think there’s a proper DVD release anywhere in the world.
1:30 AM Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) - BW-113 mins. - Sayles also chose Roberto Rossellini’s Italian neorealist classic Paisan, a film about the aftermath of the Allied invasion in Italy. This is unavailable on DVD officially, I believe. There was a release that’s no longer available pairing the film with De Sica’s Two Women (also on TCM this evening), but I’ve read the quality was poor. TCM has shown Paisan before and the print they used isn’t in great shape so I’d guess that’s a big part of what’s preventing a DVD release. It’s speculation, but I could see Criterion releasing it if they felt the technical quality was up to their standards.
Wednesday January 23
11:15 AM Nightfall (Tourneur, 1956) - BW-79 mins. - Originally set to make its debut back in September but pre-empted for a memorial tribute to Jane Wyman, Jacques Tourneur’s film about a man (Aldo Ray) on the run was based on a David Goodis story. It also features Anne Bancroft’s film debut. I hate that TCM is burying this showing on a late morning in the middle of the week, but I’m extremely excited it’s getting aired at all. Anyone who misses it this time around should be able to catch it when the channel airs the film again in March. Don’t hold your breath for a DVD release since Sony owns the rights and they’re basically worthless when it comes to releasing the Columbia back catalog.
5:00 AM The Oklahoma Kid (Bacon, 1939) - BW-81 mins. - Cagney and Bogie in a western! A Warner Bros. film and not yet on DVD.
Thursday January 24
11:30 AM Jimmy the Gent (Curtiz, 1934) - BW-68 mins. - Looking through the vast pile of Cagney pictures TCM is airing this month, this is probably the one I wasn’t familiar with that sounded the most promising. He plays an “unscrupulous” private detective who specializes in lost heirs. Bette Davis is the love interest he loses to a rival investigator. I like the idea that it’s apparently a comedy and Michael Curtiz as director is almost always a plus. Another WB property, also unreleased on DVD.
Saturday January 26
6:15 AM The Outrage (Ritt, 1964) - BW-97 mins. - I’m not sure which idea’s crazier - doing a direct remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon in English or having Paul Newman star as a Mexican bandit. Newman and his frequent director Martin Ritt, following up the success of the previous year’s Hud, reunited for the story of a rape and murder told four distinctly different ways by four separate characters. The eclectic cast includes Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, and a pre-Star Trek William Shatner. MGM released the film theatrically and DVD rights should have transferred to Warner Bros.
10:00 AM Armored Car Robbery (Fleischer, 1950) - BW-67 mins. - This was tucked away at the end of James Ellroy’s guest programmer night back in November and I found myself unable to turn away from the screen. Absolutely no nonsense and straightforward telling of a heist and the aftermath, but done so with extraordinary flair. William Talman (the chilling title character in Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker and future Hamilton Burger on the Perry Mason television show) is the notorious criminal mastermind and Charles McGraw plays a police lieutenant on his tail. Director Richard Fleischer made this a couple of years before re-teaming with McGraw on 1952’s excellent The Narrow Margin, which was released by Warner Bros. in its second Film Noir box set. Armored Car Robbery, another Warner-controlled title, isn’t yet available on DVD.
Sunday January 27
4:00 PM The Sterile Cuckoo (Pakula, 1969) - C-106 mins. - Liza Minnelli received an Oscar nomination for her work here as a lonely young woman who finds love. It was also Alan J. Pakula’s directorial debut. He’d go on to helm a trio of must-see suspense films in the 1970s - Klute, The Parallax View, and All the President’s Men. TCM will be showing The Sterile Cuckoo again in just a few days, on February 5. A Paramount release, the movie is not yet on DVD.
Monday January 28
4:30 PM The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (Guillermin, 1960) - BW-86 mins. - Aldo Ray leads an IRA mission to steal gold from the Bank of England. I believe this was Peter O’Toole’s big break in film and the role that helped him get Lawrence of Arabia. Surprisingly, there’s no DVD release even in R2 that I could find. MGM put the movie out in the U.S. and Warner Bros. holds the home video rights.
2:00 AM The Squall (Korda, 1929) - BW-103 mins. - Myrna Loy plays a Gypsy girl on the run in Hungary. Director Alexander Korda would go on to direct and/or produce numerous British films, like The Thief of Bagdad and Jungle Book. A teenage Loretta Young co-stars in this early sound effort. No DVD, but this was a First National production so WB has the rights.
Tuesday January 29
7:30 AM Hold Your Man (Wood, 1933) - BW-87 mins. - TCM has half a dozen Jean Harlow movies scheduled for this morning. It’s not her birthday or the anniversary of her death, but I suppose any day is as good as another since Ms. Harlow is sorely underrepresented on DVD. This one stars Harlow and Clark Gable. He kills a man, takes off and leaves her to take the rap. The story and screenplay are by Anita Loos, a prolific screenwriter who also wrote the novel Gentleman Prefer Blondes. An MGM film, rights now held by Warner Bros.
12:00 PM Personal Property (Van Dyke, 1937) - BW-84 mins. - Harlow teams up with Robert Taylor this time. Taylor is supposed to watch over the widowed Harlow’s house and furniture (hence the title). My guess is they fall in love at some point, probably after a little bickering at first. Saratoga, another Gable-Harlow picture, follows at 1:30 PM. I believe, out of these six Harlow films on today’s schedule, only Red Headed Woman is available on DVD (the other two not yet mentioned are The Girl from Missouri and Reckless). They’re all in Warner Bros.’ control.
8:00 PM Beau Brummel (Beaumont, 1924) - BW-128 mins. - I can’t be of much help on Beau Brummel, but I did want to make mention of this screening because it’ll include a new score from the winner of TCM’s annual Young Film Composers Competition. John Barrymore stars and has the night to himself, with The Mad Genius, A Bill of Divorcement, and Topaze following. Also with Mary Astor, the silent Beau Brummel repeats at 2:30 AM and isn’t on DVD. It’s another Warner Bros. film.
Wednesday January 30
5:45 AM The Strawberry Blonde (Walsh, 1941) - BW-99 mins. - James Cagney only made four films with director Raoul Walsh. This one came a couple of years after The Roaring Twenties and eight years before White Heat. Unlike those two, The Strawberry Blonde is a comedy. Cagney and Jack Carson are both after Rita Hayworth. Olivia de Havilland figures in there as well and the supporting cast includes Alan Hale and George Reeves. I’ve heard nothing but good things about the movie and can’t understand why Warner Bros. hasn’t yet put it out on DVD. I can only figure it’ll show up in a second Cagney box or maybe a Hayworth set.
Thursday January 31
9:00 AM Boy Meets Girl - (Bacon, 1938) - BW-87 mins. - Cagney’s 37-film month has to end somewhere and this is among the last of them, with the official end coming at noon when The Millionaire plays. Here he’s teamed with good friend and frequent co-star Pat O’Brien. They play a pair of Hollywood screenwriters who pester a pregnant waitress and get inspired to write a movie, with the unborn baby as the star. The always reliable Ralph Bellamy adds support and a future U.S. president plays “radio announcer at premiere,” according to IMDB. Warner Bros. must have something in the works with their vast library of unreleased Cagney, or at least one can hope so.
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