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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Film Review July 12, 1996
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Granted, this documentary about the life and career of filmmaker William A. Wellman may be tough to sell to anyone apart from film buffs. But, come to think of it,... 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...His experience made him the natural choice to direct 1927's Wings, a landmark film whose realistic aerial footage and on-location filming in Texas helped it win the first Academy Award ever. Other familiar Wellman movies include James Cagney's searing portrait of a gangster in Public Enemy, the screwball comedy Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard and Frederic March, The Ox-Box Incident's high-minded indictment of mob violence, and the original version of the Hollywood cautionary tale A Star Is Born..."
Let Him Have It
Film Review April 10, 1992
by Marc Savlov
Description: London, 1941. The Blitz is on, and buried in the rubble of a toppled house lies 12-year-old Derek Bentley, his skull fractured, his fragile frame racked by a sudden, uncontrollable...
by Marc Savlov
"...Derek's black-clad friend Chris (Reynolds) is the sociopathic force behind Derek's downfall. When the two find themselves cornered on the roof of a building they were in the process of burglarizing, it's grinning Chris (a la James Cagney, whom he idolizes) who points a gun at the arresting officer..."
Something Wilder
Screens Story August 28, 2009
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: AFS Essential Cinema: Censors, Drop Your Scissors! Billy Wilder's Later Comedies
"...Another film set abroad is One, Two, Three, an uproarious comedy about Coca-Cola's top executive in West Berlin whose career appears in jeopardy when his daughter goes gaga for a hunky Communist from East Berlin. The film's star, James Cagney, bolsters the comedy with his rat-a-tat rhythms, lending an uncommon quickness to Wilder's movie..."
Arts Review
Arts Review November 10, 2006
by Robert Faires
Description: Rebecca Beegle's 'Have You Ever Been Assassinated?' plays
out like a fever-dream version of 'Yankee Doodle Dandy,'
deliriously mashing up vaudeville acts with American
history
"...The characters take their names from both the subject of that classic George M. Cohan biopic and its star, James Cagney, and Cohan's penchant for celebrating Americana is all mashed up with real American history, as when Papa Abe – and that's Co-han, he wants to make clear, despite the inexplicable Yiddishisms uttered by his wife and son – takes a bullet just as his presidential namesake did, and at the hands of a man named Booth, no less..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review September 29, 2006
by Steve Uhler
Description: These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them
"...Mister Roberts (Warner Home Video, $19.98): John Ford may have been fired halfway through filming (replaced by Mervyn LeRoy), but that didn't stop this from being one of the funniest "service comedies" ever made. With a crew including Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and, as the quintessential schemer Ensign Pulver, an Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon...."
DVD Watch
Screens Review July 21, 2006
by Steve Uhler
Description: The end of an era on six discs
"...But Warner Bros. had cock o' the walk gangster James Cagney, which trumped them both..."
A Monster Bash
Screens Story October 25, 2002
by Marc Savlov
Description: Austin Studios will host a free outdoor screening this Saturday evening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, which, despite its singular title, also manages to cram in both Dracula and the Wolfman.
"...Few of these early horror-comedy hybrids, however, carried through on either the grim promise of the original monsters or the antics of the comedy teams. Hideous misfires starring the (long-forgotten) Ritz Brothers, the Bowery Boys (who initially got their start not as a comedy ensemble but alongside James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces), and a handful of others were common, but towering above the ambulatory graveside dreck was the Bud Abbott and Lou Costello vehicle Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein...."
One, Two, Three
Film Review June 3, 2002
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Wilder mixed the Cold War and the Berlin Wall with his comedic sensibilities and turned a diplomatic nightmare into a take-no-prisoners assault on the funny bone. In his last screen...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Pamela Tiffin, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis and James Cagney..."
Letters at 3am
Columns May 31, 2002
by Michael Ventura
Description: Learning about "manhood" from the movies.
"...The World War II generation looked to male images like Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, and John Wayne; and to female images like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck ... actors, presences, of considerable substance and range, far more centered and less self-centered than the generation that followed them..."
Exhibitionism
Arts Review March 29, 2002
by Rob Curran
Description: Austin Playhouse's production of the musical Blues in the Night pinpoints feelings of love and loss among three women all hurt in love, with singers Jacqui Cross, Janis Stinson, and Melanie Wilkinson blending their three strong voices into a mighty harmony and reclaiming blues music for their sex.
"...Toner has dolled up the Element on Fifth Street like a wartime jazz club on the South Side of Chicago. The tables, each set for four, gather in a tight bunch around the stage, as in a James Cagney gangster movie set..."
Pride of the Yankees?
News Story July 20, 2001
by Mike Clark-Madison
Description: Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.
"...Greg Curtis might not disagree. His personality and reputation are the opposite of tough-and-scrappy: a tall, quiet, dignified man of letters, Gregory Peck to Broyles' Gary Cooper and Smith's James Cagney..."
White Heat
Film Review July 5, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Talk about your baby boys - Cagney takes the cake here as a psychopathic gangster with a seriously perverse mother complex. A gangster classic....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Raoul Walsh. Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien and Margaret Wycherly..."
The Public Enemy
Film Review July 5, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: This criminal tale excited audiences and landed the kinetic Cagney on the movie map. Now a classic, this is the movie in which Cagney famously crams a grapefruit into Mae...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: William Wellman. Starring: James Cagney, Eddie Woods, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke and Joan Blondell..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review May 5, 2000
by Jerry Renshaw
"...("Video Reviews" wishes to thank Encore Movies & Music, I Luv Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo Video for their help in providing videos, laser discs, and DVDs.)LADY KILLER D: Roy Del Ruth (1933); with James Cagney, Mae Clarke, George Chandler, Margaret Lindsay.SKYSCRAPER SOULS D: Edgar Selwyn (1932); with Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Wallace Ford, Verree Teasdale, Norman Foster.EMPLOYEES' ENTRANCE D: Roy Del Ruth (1933); with Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White...."
Video Reviews
Screens Review February 11, 2000
by Jerry Renshaw
Description: William Wellman's larger-than-life legacy: Reviews of Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, and Battleground.
"...("Video Reviews" wishes to thank Encore Movies & Music, I Luv Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo Video for their help in providing videos, laser discs, and DVDs.)The Public EnemyD: William Wellman (1931); with James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Edward Woods, Donald Cook, Mae Clarke.Nothing Sacred D: William Wellman (1937); with Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly.Battleground D: William Wellman (1949); with James Whitmore, Van Johnson, Richard Jaeckel, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak...."
The Kid's Got Moxie!
Screens Story December 3, 1999
by Sarah Hepola
Description: Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.
"...As played by Frazier, Johnny Twennies is an unforgettable hero, dashing from one scoop to the next with a deadpan earnestness. He is a character who channels, as Harry Knowles noted in his review, "equal parts James Cagney, Harold Lloyd, Fred Astaire, Dick Powell, and the Fleischer Superman's Clark Kent." And, director Abraham would like to respectfully add, a little bit of Bugs Bunny...."
High Impact
Music Story September 3, 1999
by Christopher Gray
Description: Austin hip-hop promoters Hip-Hop Mecca
"...Hip-hop is like the Internet, or in theory, like the government: Nobody owns it; it's open to anyone. Even those who don't know Chuck D's Public Enemy from James Cagney's..."
Billy Shakes, Superstar
Arts Story April 22, 1999
by Robert Faires
"...Well, perhaps not much, if history serves as any guide. The cinema has had feverish affairs with Shakespeare before: in the mid-Thirties, when even James Cagney muscled his way into a Shakespeare picture; 1944-56, when Olivier and Orson Welles brought a handful of the Bard's tragedies to the screen; and the late Sixties, when Franco Zeffirelli delivered a lusty one-two punch with his Burton-Taylor Taming of the Shrew and his Whiting-Hussey Romeo and Juliet..."
Homage To An Old Marquee
Columns January 23, 1998
by Michael Ventura
"...It was one thing to see the young Bette Davis on TV, with the slightly snowy reception we had, and cut with many commercials; it was a revelation to see her shine in all her young intensity, with no commercials. And the young James Cagney..."
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Books Story September 5, 1997
by Tom Aiken
"...C.A. Whitman -- this model citizen, this product of our "state," this flip-side to Jack Henry Abbot's coin -- socially acceptable, but every bit as deviant and mean -- mean like an animal reared from infancy in the streets -- this logical creation of our perverse need to succeed beyond all reasonable expectations; a patriarch who is really no different from Ma Jarrett in White Heat, pushing and prodding son Cody, played by James Cagney, to the top of the criminal heap, "Top of the world, son..."
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