More than just a half-grapefruit pushed into the kisser of a grouchy gun moll at the breakfast table. Really one of the quintessential rise-and-fall gangster chronicles, including perhaps the most insufferable Long-Suffering Mama ever encountered on screen. And the "fall" comes with a uniquely resounding and humiliating whump. Cagney got very good at this sort of thing very early, but he got better at it later: The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, and best of all, Love Me or Leave Me. With Jean Harlow, Eddie Woods, Beryl Mercer, and Mae Clarke; directed by William Wellman. (1931) — Duncan Shepherd
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