The best James Cagney’s comedy movies on Apple iTunes

James Cagney

James Cagney

17/07/1899- 30/03/1986
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best James Cagney’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about James Cagney.

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent
6.6/10
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade
7.5/10
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 21/05/1982
  • Character: (in "White Heat") (archive footage)
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts
7.6/10
Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

Torrid Zone

Torrid Zone
6.7/10
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

Lady Killer

Lady Killer
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/12/1933
  • Character: Dan Quigley
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy
7.1/10
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/01/1933
  • Character: Lefty Merrill
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

This Is Bob Hope...

This Is Bob Hope...
7.9/10
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.

Devil Dogs of the Air

Devil Dogs of the Air
5.9/10
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.

The West Point Story

The West Point Story
6.2/10
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

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