Picture Snatcher

That's right boys. Cagney invented texting. ON THE LEVEL. I SWEAR! He also invented the selfie. If you don't believe me just look at the poster. UMMMM! UMMMMMMM! Heehehehehe! P.S. somebody submit Sterling Holloway because my privileges have been revoked

Nice little b-flick with an energetic performance from James Cagney who, I believe, slaps every woman that appears on screen. Looks like the scummy paparazzi business was just as relevant 75 years ago.

O Durão estreava há 90 anos no Des Moines. A parceria Bacon/Cagney rendeu a obra-prima Footlight Parade e aqui ambos estão bem colocados nos seus afazeres também, reza a lenda que Nightcrawler foi profundamente influenciado pelo jornalismo mondo cane desse filme. Box OP Cinema Gângster.

What an absolute blast this was! Can you believe that photo of the woman actually happened??? She was Ruth Snyder and oh boy that front page is disgusting, and the dude who took it originally is Daniel Sudeikis’s great-grampa WTF

Cagney steals the show yet again with a fantastic performance. Unfortunately, the film's plot was poorly designed (like many movies of the era): the plot doesn't know exactly where to go, so it goes too many places. If nothing else, entertaining.

A morality piece which essentially equates smut tabloids with gangsterism, swerving somewhat awkwardly between drama and comedy, but succinctly plotted and filmed in that straight-shot, hard-edged Warner Brothers hallmark. Most notably another notch in Cagney's belt; a titanic performance in an otherwise amusing but lightweight movie.

Not a major James Cagney picture as he is a paper picture snatcher trying to go straight after spending time in jail. Except he gets work at a dirt sheet and still gets into trouble. But Cagney can get something special out of anything and he makes this lesser story more then watchable. This is his own little playground where he can go all crazy slapping women around and be playful. And the directors and actors/actresses have to put up with it 'cause it's THE James Cagney they got to deal with.

Hardboiled Warner's drams about an unscrupulous photographer who snaps a picture of a man in the electric chair. Cagney is worth watching, as usual, and the story isn't too bad.

A type of the film I like to watch on Sunday mornings. Energetic, light, and with the happy ending.