Warner Bros
Hard boiled gangster movies , early film noir , fast paced comedies , melodramas , the best women's pictures , hard hitting social exposes - with a few exceptions all as fast as B movies . Grew up watching these films - a few by other studios , but most of the good ones were Warner Bros . Avoiding musicals , the lighter comedies , with a few westerns , and a few of the epics - from 1929 to the early fifties. In rough order of the main stars -
James Cagney
Edward G. Robinson
George Raft
Humphrey Bogart
John Garfield
Paul Muni
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Ida Lupino
Olivia De Havilland
Errol Flynn
Ronald Reagan
Pat O'Brien
Peter Lorre
Sydney Greenstreet
Paul Henreid
Claude Rains
Leslie Howard
Warren William
Barbara Stanwyck
Mary Astor
Ann Dvorak
Joan Blondell
Ann Sheridan
George Brent
James Cagney
Edward G. Robinson
George Raft
Humphrey Bogart
John Garfield
Paul Muni
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Ida Lupino
Olivia De Havilland
Errol Flynn
Ronald Reagan
Pat O'Brien
Peter Lorre
Sydney Greenstreet
Paul Henreid
Claude Rains
Leslie Howard
Warren William
Barbara Stanwyck
Mary Astor
Ann Dvorak
Joan Blondell
Ann Sheridan
George Brent
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- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGrant WithersEvalyn KnappJames CagneyMa Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story involves rum-running, accidental murder, and a frame-up.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsLew AyresJames CagneyDorothy MathewsDespite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellLouis CalhernThe adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEdward G. RobinsonJames CagneyEvalyn KnappA Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.with Robinson too
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGeorge ArlissFlorence ArlissDavid MannersA millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGrant WithersMary AstorRegis ToomeyEvents take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyMarian NixonGuy KibbeeYoung boxer Jim Kane, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. To help her, Jim endangers his health with a tough boxing match in Tijuana. Before long, he's back fighting while Peggy stays in the desert. But in the city, after new triumphs, Jim meets Joan, a teasing Society blonde. Will he see through her before it's too late?
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellAnn DvorakRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyLoretta YoungGeorge E. StoneIndependent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyMae ClarkeMargaret LindsayA former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.
- DirectorsArchie MayoMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyMadge EvansArthur ByronA political appointee with a checkered past tries to institute constructive changes as the deputy commissioner at a cruel reform school but gets pushback from a sadistic warden and a suspicious judge who doesn't trust his motives.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyRalph BellamyPatricia EllisDanny Kean, a former inmate, pursues photography and romance with Patricia, whose father initially disapproves. A ethical dilemma strains their bond until Kean confronts his criminal past.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJames CagneyMary BrianAllen JenkinsSmall time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series of cons to help pay it back.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJames CagneyPatricia EllisAllen JenkinsTrucker 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.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienGloria StuartA cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellVictor JoryDan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyBette DavisAllen JenkinsAn unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienOlivia de HavillandTwo brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the affections of a lovely young woman.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayAnn DvorakJames Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienMargaret LindsayA talented but brash stunt pilot enters the Marine Corps and becomes more disciplined.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayRicardo CortezAfter 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.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJames CagneyMae ClarkeJames BurkeThe adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.made for Grand National , might as well be a Warner Bros
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienJune TravisWar veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland. Returning from Cleveland to Newark, Texas' plane crashes attempting to land on the airfield under extremely bad weather circumstances and he dies from this accident. Dizzy feels guilty for his friend's death and takes the next flight to Cleveland under even worse circumstances, testing a new anti-ice device on the plane.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienHumphrey BogartA priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
