James Cagney

‘Angels with Dirty Faces’: Michael Curtiz’s Touching Gangster Classic Forged Under the All-Seeing Eye of the Hays Code

  By Sven Mikulec   Back in the thirties, gangster movies were increasingly popular in the American cinema. The subject…

7 years ago

Milos Forman’s ‘Ragtime’: An Entertaining Period Drama and a Graceful Goodbye of the Great James Cagney

In his much anticipated 1981 adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's celebrated novel ‘Ragtime,’ director Miloš Forman decided to single out…

8 years ago