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Rating: Q=6, P=5 / Average OJ
Scale 1=3, Scale 2=3, Scale 3=3, Scale 4=2
Gangster, Crime, Film Noir, Complex Relationships
Another James Cagney classic. I'd seen the end sequence before but never the whole film. I thoroughly enjoyed every scene and loved watching the cops (good guys) catch up with the gangsters/escaped prisoners (bad guys). You really want the bad guys to succeed, thanks to the brilliant writers and directing of Raoul Walsh. Cody is psychotic and has the strangest mother complex (a theme we see again later in Hitchcock's Psycho) His violence and craziness is one of the best villains ever.
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