Stellar!! A great career condensed into a few short minutes. Incredible tap dancing. Some epic scenes: "Look ma! ... top of the world!" and blows up in a fire ball high atop a refinery tank after evading police apprehension. A solid 1930s lefty who went towards conservative with age. Mafia had a hit out on him back then because he actively fought to keep them out Holloywood when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. There was a plan to drop a massive stage light on him but George Raft thwarted the effort and intervened to prevent future attempts.
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James Cagney - A Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Tribute to James Cagney According to James Cagney's autobiography a Mafia plan to murder Cagney by dropping a several hundred pound klieg light on top of him...
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