James Cagney News

Like most everyone, my earliest impressions of criminals and inmates came by way of watching television.

Moviegoers have two chances to see Bogie on the big screen this weekend as the Library of Congress theater on Mount Pony continues its tribute to tough guys and dolls.

The Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony took time off this weekend so Uncle Sam could pay some bills.

Employing my usual lopsided sense of urgency, I announce my transformation from weekly to monthly columnist with a timely review of my favorite film.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is a one-hour production that captures the music, spirit and community of this treasured annual event.

The shortcomings of "Mister Roberts'' were easy to overlook in the 1955 film version because of the performances by Henry Fonda, William Powell, a snarling, hissing James Cagney, and especially a brilliant young actor named Jack Lemmon.

This is the tale of two movies set in Europe, both screening in Austin tonight: The first, Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three , concerns a Coca-Cola executive sequestered in West Germany who brazenly opens the Iron Curtain in the interest of love and capitalism.

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They have heard plenty about the Brooklyn bombshell, though. Obviously, Mae West was not the only writer to revive the 1890s era on the Bowery and in Chinatown.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the next installment of A Movie A Week. [For those who new to the column, A Movie A Week is just that, a dedicated way for me explore vintage cinema every week.

The Beast of the City plays out as an above-average crime picture made for MGM where the good guys and the heroes are, finally, one and the same.

August's free movies on Mount Pony wrap up this weekend with a John Wayne western, an R-rated drama with big, small-town characters and a 76-year-old musical comedy starring tough guy James Cagney.

Summer: It can drain you faster than an oil pan at Jiffy Lube and leave you slack-jawed and feeble at the sight of a sweat-soaked ice cream vendor.

Summer: It can drain you faster than an oil pan at Jiffy Lube and leave you slack-jawed and feeble at the sight of a sweat-soaked ice cream vendor.

Summer: It can drain you faster than an oil pan at Jiffy Lube and leave you slack-jawed and feeble at the sight of a sweat-soaked ice cream vendor.

Summer: It can drain you faster than an oil pan at Jiffy Lube and leave you slack-jawed and feeble at the sight of a sweat-soaked ice cream vendor.

Summer: It can drain you faster than an oil pan at Jiffy Lube and leave you slack-jawed and feeble at the sight of a sweat-soaked ice cream vendor.

James Cagney in The Public Enemy Edward G Robinson's Little Caesar is great; Cagney's twitchily restless Tom Powers, profiting from Prohibition, is even greater.

If you had to guess what film had the most impact on director Theo Angelopoulos when he was a child, you probably wouldn't pick Angels with Dirty Faces .

At his birth on July 17, 1899, James Cagney put in an uncharacteristically frail appearance for the small but wiry human tornado who swept through his entire 86 years without impediment.