Mister Roberts (1955)
Comedy | Drama | War
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
Starring: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond
Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
Comedy | Drama | Musical
Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues Linda, and pins a grand larceny rap on Dan. And all set to music!
Starring: James Cagney, Shirley Jones, Roger Smith, Cara Williams, Nehemiah Persoff, Royal Dano, Anthony Caruso
Director: Charles Lederer
One, Two, Three (1961)
Comedy
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Starring: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, Liselotte Pulver, Leon Askin, Pamela Tiffin
Director: Billy Wilder
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The legendary James Cagney (White Heat) in his final great gangster role. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, a lowlife maniac who doesn’t care about anything except his next “kill.” After violently busting out from prison and murdering his partner, the cold-blooded mobster satisfies a pent-up lust for violence in an unstoppable and vicious crime-spree. Dirty cops, Inspector Charles Webber (Ward Bond) and Lieutenant John Reese (Barton MacLane) try to strong-arm the fascinating creep, but he turns the table on them and blackmails them with the help of a crooked lawyer, Keith 'Cherokee' Mandon (Luther Adler).
Starring: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Barton MacLane
Director: Gordon Douglas
The Public Enemy (1931)
Crime | Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Edward Woods, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Director: William A. Wellman
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Childhood friends on opposite sides of the law fight over the future of a street gang.
Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Director: Michael Curtiz
Ragtime (1981)
Drama
A proud black musician rebels against racism in turn-of-the-century New York.
Starring: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien
Director: Milos Forman
The Gallant Hours (1960)
Biography | Drama | War
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Starring: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Robert Montgomery
White Heat (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, John Archer, Fred Clark
Director: Raoul Walsh
G-Men / 'G' Men (1935)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
It's the early days of the F.B.I. – federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they've got limited powers – they don't carry weapons and have to get local police approval for arrests – that doesn't stop fresh Law School grad Eddie Buchanan from joining up, and he encourages his former roommate James "Brick" Davis (James Cagney) to do so as well. But Davis wants to be an honest lawyer, not a shyster, despite his ties to mobster boss McKay, and he's intent on doing so, until Buchanan is gunned down trying to arrest career criminal Danny Leggett. Davis soon joins the "G-Men" as they hunt down Leggett (soon-to-be Public Enemy Number One) and his cronies Collins and Durfee, who are engaged in a crime and murder spree from New York to the midwest.
Starring: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane, Lloyd Nolan, Regis Toomey
Director: William Keighley
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Starring: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn
Director: Raoul Walsh
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Biography | Drama | Musical
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.
Starring: James Cagney, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning
Director: Michael Curtiz
