Greatest gangster films collection. James Cagney
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Published
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2010.
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (395 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
883929156955

Notes

General Note
Title from container.
General Note
White heat: Includes: Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the movies 1949 with newsreel, comedy short So you think you're not guilty, cartoon Homeless hare and theatrical trailers; featurette White heat: top of the world; commentary by historian Drew Casper.
General Note
White heat: Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
General Note
City for conquest: Includes: Warner Night at the movies 1940 with newsreel, patriotic short Service with the colors, cartoon Stage fright and theatrical trailers; featurette Molls and dolls: the women of gangster films; commentary by historian Richard Schickel; Breakdowns of 1940: studio blooper reel; radio show adaptation.
General Note
City for conquest: Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
General Note
Each dawn I die: Includes: Warner Night at the movies 1939 with newsreel, documentary short A day at Santa Anita, cartoons Detouring America and Each dawn I crow and theatrical trailers; featurette Stool pigeons and pine overcoats: the language of gangster films; commentary by historian Haden Guest; Breakdowns of 1939: studio blooper reel; radio show adaptation.
General Note
Each dawn I die: Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.
General Note
"G" men: Warner Night at the movies 1935 with newsreel, Bob Hope comedy short The old grey mayor, cartoon Buddy the gee man and theatrical trailers; featurette Morality and the code: a how-to manual for Hollywood; commentary by historian Richard Jewell; Breakdowns of 1935: studio blooper reel; How I play golf by Bobby Jones, short no. 11: practice shots.
General Note
"G" men: Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.
Creation/Production Credits
White heat: a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts ; suggested by a story by Virginia Kellogg ; music by Max Steiner ; produced by Louis F. Edelman ; directed by Raoul Walsh.
Creation/Production Credits
City for conquest: an Anatole Litvak production ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screenplay by John Wexley ; from the novel by Aben Kandel ; music by Max Steiner ; directed by Anatole Litvak.
Creation/Production Credits
Each dawn I die: a First National picture ; from the novel by Jerome Odlum ; screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Warren Duff ; directed by William Keighley.
Creation/Production Credits
"G" men: The Vitaphone Corp. ; story and screenplay by Seton I. Miller ; directed by William Keighley.
Participants/Performers
White heat: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Fred Clark.
Participants/Performers
City for conquest: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Jerome Cowan, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn, Lee Patrick.
Participants/Performers
Each dawn I die: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Maxie Rosenbloom.
Participants/Performers
"G" men: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstong.
Description
White Heat (1949): "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" Cagney's Cody Jarrett -- a psychotic thug devoted to his tough-as-nails mother -- is the searing centerpiece of this blazing, fast-paced thriller. City for Conquest (1940): Club fighter Cagney turns pro to bankroll his composer brother's dream of writing the great New York City symphony. But life pulls the sidewalk out from under them in an intensely moving saga co-starring Ann Sheridan. Each Dawn I Die (1939): Two of the screen's famed tough guys -- Cagney as a reporter framed for manslaughter and George Raft as a big-house racketeer -- headline this prison movie that casts a reform-minded eye on the brutalizing effects of life in the slammer. "G" Men (1935): Four years after starring in The Public Enemy, Cagney waged on-screen war against the nation's public enemies as a zealous FBI agent in a movie "fast gutsy, as simplistic and powerful as a tabloid headline" (Time Out Film Guide). - Container.
Description
White heat: Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma, ' Cody is a volatile, violent, and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts to have an 'accident' happen to Cody, while he is running the gang from in jail. But Cody is saved by an undercover cop, who thereby befriends him and infiltrates the gang. Finally, the stage is set for Cody's ultimate betrayal and downfall, during a big heist at a chemical plant--www.imdb.com.
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City for conquest: Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Danny realizes success in the ring and uses his income to pay for his brother Eddie's music composition career, while Peggy goes on to become a professional dancer. When Peggy turns down Danny's marriage proposal for her dancing career, Danny, who wanted to quit the fight game, continues on & is blinded. His former manager finances a newsstand for the now semi-blind Danny. The movie ends with brother Eddie becoming a successful composer and dedicates a symphony at Carnegie Hall to his brother who listens to the concert on the radio from his newsstand. Peggy, now down on her luck, but in the audience at Carnegie, rushes to Danny at his newsstand where they reunite--www.imdb.com.
Description
Each dawn I die: Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. While his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life and his optimism turns into bitterness. He meets fellow-inmate Stacey and they decide to help each other--www.imdb.com.
Description
"G" men: 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--www.imdb.com.
Target Audience
White heat: Not rated.
Target Audience
City for conquest: Not rated.
Target Audience
Each dawn I die: Not rated.
Target Audience
"G" men: Not rated.
System Details
DVD; standard version; Dolby digital mono; double-sided discs; dual-layer format; NTSC, region 1.
Language
Audio: English mono.; subtitles: English (except Each dawn I die), French, Spanish; closed-captioned.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Litvak, A., Wexley, J., Kandel, A., Walsh, R., Roberts, B., Goff, I., Kellogg, V., Steiner, M., Edelman, L. F., Keighley, W., Odlum, J., Raine, N. R., Duff, W., Miller, S. I., Cagney, J., Mayo, V., O'Brien, E., Clark, F., Sheridan, A., Craven, F., Crisp, D., Kennedy, A., McHugh, F., Tobias, G., Cowan, J., Kazan, E., Quinn, A., Patrick, L., Raft, G., Bryan, J., Bancroft, G., Rosenbloom, M., Lindsay, M., Dvorak, A., & Armstrong, R. (2010). Greatest gangster films collection (Standard version.). Warner Home Video.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Anatole Litvak et al.. 2010. Greatest Gangster Films Collection. Warner Home Video.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Anatole Litvak et al.. Greatest Gangster Films Collection Warner Home Video, 2010.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Litvak, Anatole, et al. Greatest Gangster Films Collection Standard version., Warner Home Video, 2010.

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