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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929002733
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 23883
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 09, 1933
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Product Description:
When a movie theater usher is fired he takes up with criminals and finds himself quite adept at various illegal activities. Eventually though the police catch up with him and he runs to hide out in Los Angeles. There he stumbles into the movie business and soon rises to stardom. He has gone straight but his newfound success arouses the interest of his old criminal associates who are not above blackmail...Running Time: 76 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY UPC: 883929002733 Manufacturer No: 1000035748
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Rating:  - Unbeatable pre-code Cagney - great package
"Lady Killer" is now available on DVD and what an entertaining film it is. This film was released just before the imposition of the Hays Code and we can be grateful.
The film stars the magnetic Jimmy Cagney as a bellhop who becomes a con man, flees the police and winds up in Hollywood as a film star. This gives the script the opportunity to satirise a number of genres and the swipes at the studio system are hilarious. Mae Clarke, of the grapefruit from "Public Enemy", stars opposite ... Read More
Rating: - fantastic--but overlooked--vehicle for Jimmy Cagney
Lady Killer is a marvelous, much overlooked vehicle for the great Jimmy Cagney to showcase his numerous talents. Cagney does comedy, his typical gangster type role, a little bit of drama and more in this snappy motion picture.
The action starts when Dan Quigley (Cagney) gets fired from his job as a movie theater usher; and when he gets taken by a group of small time con artists he joins them rather than getting even with them. Soon we meet Mae Clarke as Myra Gale, Duke (Leslie Fenton) ... Read More
Rating: - Gangster film based somewhat on a true story
The product information on this film lists everyone in the cast but the real star and the reason to watch this film - James Cagney.
1933's "Lady Killer" reteams James Cagney with Mae Clarke, their previous teaming being in Cagney's star vehicle "The Public Enemy". Cagney plays Dan Quigley, a movie usher who gets fired and then falls in with a gang of hoodlums to make ends meet and plus he likes the excitement. However, when a robbery at a mansion goes very wrong, Quigley leaves town and heads ... Read More
Rating:  - Brash
I've been watching a lot of early Cagney movies lately (thanks to TCM). One of the better ones was "Lady Killer". James Cagney plays his usual brash self right from the start where we see him too smart for his own good. He gets into a situation where he gets taken and then becomes the taker. In time, he and his "gang" have become rather successful but may have tried to reach too far. After making tracks for the other side of the country (while on the lam), Cagney stumbles into an opportunity to ... Read More
Rating: - Lady Killer: Attitude is All
When James Cagney squished a grapefruit into the squealing face of Mae Clarke in PUBLIC ENEMY (1931), he began a trend of abuse to women that has percolated on and off in Hollywood since then. PUBLIC ENEMY was a serious if cliched crime drama that required grit on the part of the audience to view. Two years later, in LADY KILLER, director Roy Del Ruth took off some of the edginess from a snarling Cagney and morphed him from a stereotypical punk to one whose snarling exterior hid a gentler and, surprisingly ... Read More
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