List of the best Jeanne Cagney movies: Quicksand(1950), The Time of Your Life(1948), Kentucky Rifle(1956), Don't Bother to Knock(1952), A Lion Is in the Streets(1953), Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942), Man of a Thousand Faces(1957) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
79 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Jeanne Cagney Peter Lorre Barbara Bates Taylor Holmes Wally Cassell
mechanic waitress friend boss police officer ex-girlfriend bleak suspenseful tense melodramatic santa monica, calif. pier garage arcade diner road bad luck unlikely criminal debt petty crime
After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.
Comedy, Drama
1948
109 Minutes
Kitty Duval
James Cagney William Bendix Wayne Morris Jeanne Cagney Broderick Crawford Ward Bond James Barton Paul Draper Jimmy Lydon Gale Page Richard Erdman
bartender cowboy errand boy armchair philosopher dancer prostitute amusing touching san francisco saloon dreams drinking underdog 1930s
A man in a chair (James Cagney) comments as, one by one, characters enter Nick's (William Bendix) San Francisco bar.
Western
USA
1956
80 Minutes
Cordie Hay
Chill Wills Lance Fuller Cathy Downs Jess Barker Jeanne Cagney Sterling Holloway Henry Hull John Alvin Rory Mallinson John Pickard George Keymas
wagon master passenger american indian pioneer repairman negotiator tense emotional engaging wagon wagon train wilderness frontier guns greed travel race relations ultimatum stranded rivalry
While the wagon train forges ahead, a few people stay behind to repair a disabled rifle-filled wagon but they have to contend with one another's ego and with aggressive Comanches who demand the rifles as payment for safe passage.
Drama
1952
76 Minutes
Rochelle
Richard Widmark Marilyn Monroe Anne Bancroft Donna Corcoran Jeanne Cagney Lurene Tuttle Elisha Cook Jr. Jim Backus Willis Bouchey Don Beddoe Gloria Blondell
pilot woman child babysitter chilling eerie suspenseful new york city hotel bad behavior mental illness child abuse seduction rescue revenge temptation transformation 1950s
An airline pilot (Richard Widmark) flirts with a hotel baby-sitter (Marilyn Monroe) before realizing she is deranged.
Drama
USA
1953
88 Minutes
Jennie Brown
James Cagney Barbara Hale Anne Francis Warner Anderson John McIntire Jeanne Cagney Lon Chaney Frank McHugh Larry Keating Onslow Stevens James Millican
political candidate southerner schoolteacher lawyer farmer gangster melodramatic gutsy powerful american south rural community farm rise to power political corruption exploitation murder mob violence trial rise rivalry
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Musical
USA
1942
126 Minutes
Josie Cohan
James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf George Tobias Irene Manning Rosemary DeCamp Jeanne Cagney S.Z. Sakall George Barbier Walter Catlett
george m. cohan father mother sister theatrical producer songwriter patriotic spirited new york city white house theater ambition actors show business patriotism family romance rise 1940s
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Biography
USA
1957
122 Minutes
Carrie Chaney
James Cagney Dorothy Malone Jane Greer Marjorie Rambeau Jim Backus Robert Evans Celia Lovsky Jeanne Cagney Jack Albertson Roger Smith Robert Lyden
actor wife son movie star father mother emotional powerful stage hollywood, calif. family home backstage san francisco show business marriage child custody mental illness lon chaney love transformation
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.