The best James Cagney’s romance movies
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.
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.
Frisco Kid
6.2/10
After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Love Me or Leave Me
7.1/10
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Ceiling Zero
6.7/10
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.8/10
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Torrid Zone
6.7/10
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
The Bride Came C.O.D.
6.9/10
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
Hard to Handle
6.6/10
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
The St. Louis Kid
6.5/10
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Other Men's Women
6.4/10
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
What Price Glory
6.1/10
Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
He Was Her Man
6.2/10
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
The Strawberry Blonde
7.2/10
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
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.
Devil Dogs of the Air
5.9/10
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
Sinners' Holiday
6.3/10
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
