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Cagney and the Mob: Kenneth Tynan on Hollywood’s original gangster
James Cagney Twenty one years ago James Cagney, playing in his first film, invented a new kind of screen character. In more than fifty subsequent appearances he has polished and complicated it, but the type has remained substantially unchanged; and it may now be time to investigate its extraordinary influence. Morally and psychologically it could
May 4, 2020