High Sierra—Before Maltese Falcon made Bogart a star, Walsh gave him his acting breakthrough as a romantically doomed robber.
The Strawberry Blonde—One of Hollywood’s best slices of Americana, with James Cagney at his most charming as a lunkhead who didn’t get the girl he wanted... and doesn’t know how much better off he is.
The Roaring Twenties—Rip-roaring summing-up of the gangster genre, with Cagney enacting the quintessential bootlegger’s rise and fall.
Gentleman Jim—High-spirited, incredibly entertaining bio of turn-of-the-century boxer Jim Corbett (Errol Flynn, never better). The scene where John L. Sullivan hands over his title is a classic of manly tearjerking.
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