Opening Day 2025: Your Active Leaders
The Cagneys
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Something to Sing About (1937)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
A Lion Is In the Streets (1953)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
Shake Hands With the Devil (1959)
Monday December 12, 2022
Cagney PSA
Hard boiled? Sure. Detective? Not so fast.
From a Screen Rant article on all the Spideys in the Spider-Verse:
Miles and the other Spider-people are joined by Spider-Man Noir, a version of Spidey from a black-and-white crime movie universe. He's a hard-boiled detective in the mold of Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney, and Nicolas Cage's vocal performance captures this noir antihero energy perfectly.
Bogart, sure, but Cagney never played a detective—hard-boiled or otherwise. He played a gangster about a dozen times, a reporter four times, a pilot four times even though he hated to fly. He played grifters throughout the pre-code era. He was a bandleader, a dentist, an insurance salesman, a railroad man, and the Coca-Cola rep in West Germany. In the Navy he started out as a riveter (“Here Comes the Navy”) and rose all the way to Fleet Admiral (“The Gallant Hours”). As a Fed he worked for the FBI (“G-Men”), the OSS (“13 Rue Madeleine”), and the Bureau of Weights & Measures (“Great Guy”). He played George M. Cohan twice and James Cagney once. But he was never a detective.
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