I watched The Public Enemy,
Is that the one that ends with Cagney shouting "Top of the world, Ma!" just before the flaming fuel storage tank he's standing on explodes?
Seen that one. It was quite a performance.
It's all about the coat.
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Sean K - Jan 01, 2006 8:21:34 am PST #9448 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Nutty - Jan 01, 2006 8:26:28 am PST #9449 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
No, that is White Heat, where he also plays a psycho, but a more flamboyant one with a Freudian complex. That was in the 50s, so about 20 years later. The Public Enemy is 1931, and has visual credits at the front of all the actors, and then a placard about how we shouldn't take the portrayal of gangsters as an endorsement thereof. In the short documentary on the DVD, I found out that Cagney was originally cast in the smaller role of Matt Doyle, and the casting was switched up because he clobbered a supporting role in abnother picture shortly before starting this one. They just realized he was too big a presence to play a secondary character, and that's how he stayed for a long time.
Angels With Dirty Faces is still my favorite Cagney, though. The whole movie is buoyant and combative, so he fits into it so comfortably.
erikaj - Jan 01, 2006 8:27:24 am PST #9450 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Actually, have not honestly seen it, but David Chase has, and Barry Levinson has so I feel that I have, too.(as Levinson goes, so goes my nation) God, I'm a Gen X stereotype, aren't I? I am deeply shamed.
Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2006 8:48:17 am PST #9451 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Public Enemy is the one where he smushes a grapefruit in Jean Harlow's face.
Nutty - Jan 01, 2006 9:16:24 am PST #9452 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Not Jean Harlow. He doesn't meet her till after that scene. The woman he smooshes with the grapefruit has a hair color found in nature.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2006 9:45:20 am PST #9453 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Public Enemy is the one where he smushes a grapefruit in Jean Harlow's face.
Mae Clark.
erikaj - Jan 01, 2006 10:25:28 am PST #9454 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I have, of course, seen that clip. And heard that she got hurt doing that.
Sean K - Jan 01, 2006 1:25:51 pm PST #9455 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Angels With Dirty Faces is still my favorite Cagney, though.
I'll have to see that one. And now I'll have to check out Public Enemy, too. Love Cagney.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2006 7:37:00 pm PST #9456 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have, of course, seen that clip. And heard that she got hurt doing that.
Yeah. A number of the great takes caught on film have a story behind them. Karen Allen didn't know beforehand she'd have a snake dropped around her neck in the first Indiana Jones, for instance.
Volans - Jan 02, 2006 3:31:51 am PST #9457 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Just watched The Fog (the original) in widescreen on the big shiny TV. So much I'd never seen before, since I didn't see it in the theater!
But the two things I noticed this time were both things I should've caught sometime in the last 20 years of watching this movie:
- The missing fishing trawler "headed south from Whateley, around Arkham Reef"
- Hal Holbrook, as Father Malone, has an Irish surname, is addressed as "Father," wears a black cassock with a white tab at the collar, and in all ways appears to be a Catholic priest. The journal he finds in the church is the "Journal of Father Patrick Malone," his grandfather.
His. grand. fa. ther.
You know, maybe they did Catholicism differently in California in the 70s, but there's a reason you never hear of parishes being handed down father to son.