James Cagney

Mae Clarke

James Burke

Edward Brophy

Henry Kolker

Bernadene Hayes

Edward McNamara

Robert Gleckler

Joe Sawyer

Edward Gargan

Matty Fain

Mary Gordon

Wallis Clark

Douglas Wood

Robert Lowery

Murdock MacQuarrie

Henry Roquemore

Harry Tenbrook

Lee Shumway

John Dilson

Lynton Brent

Hugh Chapman

Wally Maher

Lester Dorr

Gertrude Green

Jim Farley

Arthur Hoyt

Frank O'Connor

Jack Pennick

Ethelreda Leopold

Jane Keckley

Kate Price

Bruce Mitchell

Al Herman

Kernan Cripps

Carlton Griffin

Dick Scott

Bobby Barber

Jeffrey Sayre

Eddy Chandler

William J. O'Brien

Sammy Blum

James Ford

Gertrude Astor

Jack Byron

Edmund Mortimer

Bud Geary

Frank Mills

Patrick Cunning

Jack Perry

Dennis O'Keefe

Ben Hendricks Jr.

John G. Blystone

Henry Johnson

Ben Carré

Henry McCarty

Harry Ruskin

Douglas MacLean

Jack MacKenzie

Dorothy Beal

Russell F. Schoengarth

James Edward Grant

Victor A. Gangelin

Edward L. Alperson

Marlin Skiles

John Sherwood

Hal Bumbaugh

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Great Guy

Grand National Pictures

Zion Meyers Productions

United States of America

CinemaSerf

A pretty routine B-noir with James Cagney as a fella from the sexily titled "Bureau of Weights & Measures" who decides to take a stand against extortion and corruption. He faces the usual threats, frame-ups as he rales against the rigged institutional infrastructure lead by a dodgy city councillor (Robert Gleckler). It's nothing special this - a vehicle for a star given precious little to work with but just about enough to fill the hour as we move towards an inevitable conclusion. It's quite a busy little film, and though limited, the dialogue helps to carry it along swiftly. Not one of Cagney's better efforts, but by no means his worst, either...

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Great Guy (1936) Trailer