JD, I mis-wrote my assessment of the "Early Cagney". I associate his early films with wooden, stagey acting by the OTHER actors - that's what I should have typed. Like you said, he delivered his style from Film 1 and could always do that - or avoid it - whenever he liked. I don't think he ...

Klon, I think I have split Cagney into his Early, Middle and Late Period. Your 1938 division might be a good dividing line between Early and Middle. Mostly, I've associated his Early Work with stagey, wooden performances (maybe cheap sets, poorer lighting, speeded up camera footage, slow dialog resp...

Cagney's a large enough collection of mine that I tend to rate his films against themselves, and not neccessarily against All Hollywood Films. It's one of my many problems - "Average" or "Below Average" can mean "Below average for a Cagney film" and still it may be a pr...

PATHS OF GLORY is one I forget about all the time, and that's definitely a film I like watching. And I suspect it's because Douglas is in one of those "At Least He's Our Jerk" roles. OUT OF THE PAST is a film I generally don't watch because he's such a despicable character, but I love it w...

This is another early film with lots of technical flaws - speeded-up camera footage, slow or mis-timed responses, etc. - that don't matter one bit to my enjoyment of this. Robert Montgomery plays his age in this film - young, young, young - and while he's a bit over-the-top in the climax, we see tha...

Kirk Douglas' jerk-nature was perfect in roles, but it made me hard to tolerate films where he was the only 'star' in it. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY is one of those "he may be a jerk, but he's Our Jerk" kinda roles. DETECTIVE STORY, too. I have a hard time popping in his DVDs voluntarily, though.

While I haven't liked quite a few of these littler Cagney films, I've really enjoyed watching them and I'll look forward to seeing if 2nd and 3rd viewings make them more pleasing.

The earlier discussion of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN makes me wonder... Has TCM got a history of running Remake Parties all together? Putting the original and one or two of its remakes on during a day/evening? I think they've run some in the same week - I vaguely recall Osborne talking about "Yesterda...

sniff sniff... never seen it. Let me hope it's on DVD!

DRAT... it's not! Not even in Europe, only the newer one. What a shame.

I usually vote this as one of my top 3 action-adventure films. This, and NEVER CRY WOLF (1983, Charles Martin Smith studies wolf populations in Alaska). And John Boorman's EMERALD FOREST (1985). The ending is pretty unexpected - the salute of recognition. But I have to admit, the torture scenes were...

Oh now, don't take her side! She's a horrible cruel person that probably ordered this and received it in, and put in on the shelf months ago, intentionally waiting for this thread to be born, JUST to pounce later and make me feel stupid. (She yells at me.) Ok, Ok... MORE stupid... Gee, thanks. Don't...

I suspect that the few weak points in this film's story don't amount to a hill of beans because the performances and the rest of the story trapped me in and took me along. And then I'm considering DARK STRANGER Kerr and HERE TO ETERNITY Kerr, and that's going to be an interesting comparison. Earlier...

Hopefully, friends here will solve that problem and allow all experiences to be enjoyed.

Is there a setting to increase the Composition Window's size? When typing New Posts or Replies, that composition window is very small (10%? 15% of my screen-size, with huge screen-areas to the left, right, top and bottom that are no-type zones. Have you seen a setting that makes the Composition Wind...

Oh lordy... I've got SOLID GOLD CADILLAC sitting on my shelves, never seen, never opened. No wonder wifey-poo yells out, "Du-uh" in my general direction sometimes.