My mother worked at Binion's Horseshoe in Vegas one night Cagney had a meal in the restaurant. My mom had the book "Cagney by Cagney " in her purse not only did he sign the book but left her a $5 dollar bill which he also signed "Top of the world to you! Jimmy Cagney" Moms gone now but I have the book and the bill she used to use for its bookmark. I'll never forget how excited she was that day. Born in 1929 she grew up watching his movies and turned me on to them as a teen. Top of the world you are Ma...and you too Jimmy 🙏🙏
@@kelleymcbride4633 your so welcome Kelley 😀 I take great pleasure in having that memory and retelling it to people that appreciate how great Jimmy was 🙏
James Cagney was so versatile. Public Enemy, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Strawberry Blond, & Yankee Doodle Dandy. All different, and all showed his incredible talent. Married to 1 woman for 64 years, actor, dancer, and a true light in cinema history. A well spent life of 87 years.
Now this is a movie why can't they make a movie like this now is it too complicated nobody has a smart what's what's going on I'd love to watch the whole movie I need to know the name I used to watch James Cagney when I was younger back in the late 60s and 70s
Loved the Dead End Kids all the way through their movies and more. I even tried Muggs(Leo Gorcey) antics with the language at times when joking around. Miss that kind of stuff.
Read his autobiography a while back..everything you admire about the man is magnified 100X as he discusses his life, his peers, his ethics...A true gentleman in all respects.
No doubt about James Cagney. The movie that shows his talents as an actor, singer and dancer is “Yankee Doodle Dandy”. He was brilliant in that role. But this move, “Angels with Dirty Faces” is my personal favorite Cagney movie. This movie and “Public Enemy”.... 2 incredible movies.
Great movie, Cagney I believe won an unofficial vote by the actors but the studio bosses and the academy strictly forbid giving the award to an actor portraying a gangster, everyone in Hollywood knew he should have won ,they threw him a bone for yankee doodle dandy a few years later, but his performance was not as great as Rocky Sullivan
I thought he said _never bother anybody in _*_their_*_ own neighborhood._ Cause it’s his neighborhood, and I guess the kids knew that, or _should_ have known that.
@@ranchan215 You can learn alot & real fast too when you're runnin' the streets. Book learnin' has its place, but there's no chapter in it that covers "whatsamattau."
The neighborhood in this movie is supposed to be Hell's Kitchen, so the Bowery Boys were out of their neighborhood. Hell's Kitchen is Upper West Side, Bowery is Lower East Side. To make it even more confusing, if they're the Dead End Kids, Dead End took place on the Upper east Side, near where Sutton Place is today, so whether it's the Dead End Kids or the Bowery Boys, they're still out of their neighborhood.
That was true in my old neighborhood. No one ever called the cops in all the years I lived there. It just wasn't done! You settled matters "Differently" back then.
Cagney deserved the Oscar as best actor in 1938 (for this movie), in 1942 for Yankee Doodle Dandy, and in 1949 for White Heat. He only won the Oscar once, but he will always be the most influential actor (along with Bogart) of the 30s and 40s
@@capitanfuturo594 As much as i like Cagney he didn't have the range of Bogey. Bogey has a catalog second to none! Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon,The treasure of Sierra Madre, The African Queen.., The Petrified Forest, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, etc. Cagney is only remembered for playing gangster roles.
Brilliant movie ,absolutely brilliant ,i will always be in tears at the end when the guards think he goes yellow but the friend he grew up with who became a priest knows different ,he did it to stop the street lads ending up as he did ,brilliant movie!.
Just adore James Cagney. His gangster roles were superb but my favourite film of his is The Strawberry Blonde (and the line “Well, that's the kind of a hairpin I am”). But best of all loved his dancing
When I was a kid in the sixties this film seemed to be on every week end and so was I when I was watching it. Love this old film and Mister Cagney. The "Dead End Kids" would go on and on. But this is Cagney at his tough guy best.
I love this movie. I remember years ago when I was a kid James Cagney was at an awards ceremony I believe it was maybe the Oscars? He came out on the stage in a wheelchair with a standing ovation too bad the Youth of today doesn't know what real good movies are and real good actors.
NOBODY LIKE CAGNEY...he dances like a dream..acted like a legend..handsome with the devils twinkle in his eye....THE BEST....theyll NEVER be another.....WALK THE WILD.STREETS JIMMY💗💗💗
That's has just brought back so many memories especially of my deceased father, who introduced me to all the classic black & white films. Love Cagney,Bogey, Raft, Flynn, Taylor, etc. Nothing better than a hot brew, choc digestives, turn the mobile off and indulge in classic Hollywood. 💫👍🏾😀💫✨🙏🏾 You're very welcome.
Amazing this has 1M views, hard to believe people still wanna see James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and the East Side Kids in 'Angel's w Dirty Faces' in 2022. You'll never get tired of these old WB films. The lessons, the performances, they stay with you your entire lifetime.
RIP Jimmy...Best motion picture ever made ! Back in the 70s there was a movie channel and every so often they would have Cagney week. I was 6 yrs old and use to pretend i was sick so i could stay home and watch the movies they played them at noon. Loved White Heat and public enemy too but Angels with dirty faces was always my fav.
One of the best movies from an era of truly great movies. Cagney was an American icon and among the most talented and versatile actors, singers, dancers and entertainers this nation has ever produced.
What an amazing great man.how we miss this talent today.no great stunts or complex filming with cameras, just good old great actors. Miss the great actors we need them today..
When I was a teen I sent Jimmy Cagney a fan letter; I received an autographed photo and a post card with a painting on that he painted. I still have them.
I absolutely loved the Bowery Boys with Satch and Whitey,etc....never knew Cagney did a movie with some of the cast. Brings back great times as a young boy in '72
This is one of my favorite Cagney films. The ending always gets me, where for a chance to turn the kids lives around, Cagney fakes cowardice as he heads to the electric chair, in the hope that when the kids hear about it, they will turn away from crime, realizing it's not all that glamorous.
Nobody plays a gangster like James Cagney. Growing up on the Lower East side of Manhattan without a father figure my idol was Rocky Sullivan and the rest of his GANGSTER character's. My friends and I thought we were the DEAD END KIDS from this movie. Same neighborhood, 40 something years later
The story I recall from a biography of Jimmy is that when Michael Curtiz said "action!" Gorcey made a wisecrack and Jimmy punched him and said "We are professionals and we don't waste these people's time!" One of the kids said, "He's no Bogart." They gave Bogie a hard time as he only played tough guys, but Cagney was the real deal. There was no one like him.
If you can catch the whole movie, the beginning scenes with Cagney & OBrien as gang kids are great. The young actor who plays Cagney at around age 13, looks & sounds exactly like him, with the fast talking and everything. .(hint--check dailymotion dot com for this & other films not free on YT)
Thanks, I have seen it many times. Cagney said in a biography that Sullivan was based on a street guy he knew when he was a kid. the movements, the shoulder-shrugging and so forth.
Yes ! A trivia thing -- in Cagney's wonderful autobiography there's a picture of him as a baby in a fancy wicker pram, turn of the century..He was the most gorgeous baby ever, I have the picture framed !
In "Man of a Thousand Faces", Cagney recreated the fake-healing scene in "The Miracle Man", the film which brought Chaney to stardom. It is presumed lost. Maybe a print will surface someday.
The only thing wrong with Cagney as Lon Chaney was that he was already in his late 50s when he was cast. Chaney died in 1930 at age 47, but was much younger than that in earlier stages of his career and as reenacted in THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES.
@@kennybluet5527 Not an expert, but saw so many of these movies and shows with this crew as a kid on TV. The names were all different..... I remember Mugsy then later called Slip who became the leader, then Satch who is called "Crabby" here? So young the are in this, they kept going well beyond looking like "kids" into absurd adults pretending to still be kids.
Truly one of a kind, which may sound silly, but Cagney was extraordinarily talented and versatile. I’ve seen great actors; we all have, but this guy was special. He always moved me and startled me. I wish I could say it better, but damn. An amazing one-of-kind-artist.
If they let this go another couple seconds, we could have seen Rocky get the REAL money out of the slot machine. I forget exactly, but he hit something and a bunch of dough came out. So the sandwiches and beer cost him nothing....
CLASSIC. I think that's "Angel's With Dirty Faces." If you haven't seen the full movie, it's one of the greatest of all-time. And the ending is one of the great tearjerkers, but not in the usual way.
Loved watching the Dead End Kids or Bowery Boys growing up and wish they still showed their movies instead of the garbage now a days. James Cagney was also one of my favourites, the good old days.
Peter Hemming another difference was that Humphrey Bogart was raised by his wealthy parents (not too wealthy but rich enough for 1899). James Cagney was raised poor. When his father died young, he got a job to support his mother, giving her every single cent of his earnings each week, and continued to care for her until she died. He was a big believer in hard work ("It was good for me. I feel sorry for the kid who has too cushy a time of it. Suddenly he has to come face-to-face with the realities of life without any mama or papa to do his thinking for him."). I prefer Cagney over Bogie for this reason. What a legend!
My dad often sent me to the store to pick up his cigarettes when I was a youngster, but this was the 1970s and by then, even 40-50 years ago, the time had passed when kids were able to purchase any alcoholic beverages even under the pretext (whether truthfully or not) of doing so for their parents.
Man… the acting is so casual and perfect. You can’t even explain how much of a masterpiece this film is… man I’m only 25 and my pops was showing me all the OG Cagney, G. Robinson, Humphrey movies at like 4 or 5 😂
I give you guys another tidbit. The dead-end kids worked with Cagney, Garfield and Bogart among others. James Cagney and John Garfield were tough guys from the Lower East Side, and they could hold their own with the dead end kids. But Bogart was the son of a rich doctor or lawyer and grew up wealthy. He was not really a tough guy at all. And there's a story about him working on the movie "Dead End", hence giving the dead end kids their name, and they grabbed him and threw him on the ground and pulled his pants off between takes. But not so with Cagney or John Garfield. A real sleeper with these kids and John Garfield is the movie "They Made Me a Criminal". It's my favorite dead end kids movie. You could tell John Garfield had a real rapport with them just like Cagney.
@ DJ Really DJ, that's the truth! Just finished seeing the movie and when I saw that wink, I started laughing and said aloud-"Ahh bastard, he made that look slick!" If any one else tried that wink with that smirk, it would probably look cheesy and stupid. But Cagney made it look extremely cool! Rest in Paradise Mr. James Cagney. We're still keeping this film alive and kicking 81 years later my man!
An all time classic!! One of my favorite movies!!! The acting and the overall storytelling is phenomenal! Cagney, as usual, delivers an Oscar worthy performance! By the way, this movie also starred Pat O’Brien and Humphrey Bogart!
One of my favorite lines from this movie is from the next scene. At Rocky's flat they get ready to eat and Rocky says "Alright now, shove your chest up to the wood!".
On the set, Cagney gave Leo Gorcey a good slap in the face for being disrespectful; in those days, if you knew what was good for you, you DIDN'T talk smack to your elders, unless you were prepared to take some physical punishment for it!
james cagney. a true irish american actor. what a legend. leo goercy and huntz hall.. east side kids. i remember watching this gang on tv when i was a kid. great show!!
@@patrickgogan3517 Several inflation calculators put the value of $5 in 1938 at around $90 in 2020 dollars. The $100+ in the wallet they lifted would be worth over $1800 in today's money.
He sure deserves all the accolades being heaped upon him in this comment section for his acting. 100%!! But let’s not forget what an amazing song and dance man he was too! The total package!
My mom grew up watching James Cagney in the 40s, one of your favorite movies was angels with dirty faces. in the last scene when the priest trys talks James Cagney into acting like he's scared walking to the chair and to put on a big big show in front the kids so to change their actions. At first, he is defiant about not doing it and then hesees the kids, all impressionable and goes ahead. for the benefit of saving the kid's future snd lives, He makes himself look like a fool like a raving yellow coward one last act of courage and selflessness!! mama would just cry and cry and cry the millionth time we saw the movie she would still cry. Class is right and sure wish we had it again!
Poet and author John Campbell, in his book 'The Rose and the Blade', published by Lagan Press Poetry, wrote an excellent poetic tribute 'Cagney's not dead'. Every James Cagney fan will nod in nostalgic recognition and smile at each line.
Cagney even made a few Westerns, the best of them being TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN -- not just "pretty good Western, for Cagney" but a solid Western in its own right, which Cagney enhances.
When I was a teenager in Jersey my mom got Mr Cagney's phone number and I called him for his birthday. Very nice gentleman but boy i was scared talking to him.
I love the way these people talked then,and of all these dead end kids Billy Halop was probably the most successful he guest starred on television programs such as The Andy Griffith Show and also was Munson on All In The Family but died in 1977 at age 57.
Also saw him in an older movie (probably only a few years after this one) called "Blues In The Night", about musicians. And yeah, saw him on the AGS and also as Munson on AITF.
@@PapagenoMF Gorcey and Hall didn't achieve top billing until after Halop left the gang. But "Slip Mahoney" and "Satch" were just absolute B-movie comedy greatness in The Bowery Boys franchise. I think their careers went better than Halop's did.
