Lady Killer

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James Cagney, in a white shirt, is restrained by a police officer while another officer sits at a desk in a jail scene from the film Lady Killer (1933).

Lady Killer

film by Del Ruth [1933]

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Roy Del Ruth
Early films
…perhaps best of the lot, Lady Killer, with Cagney in one of his finest comic roles as a gangster on the lam who draws on his experience as a movie theatre usher to become a Hollywood star. After making the drama Upper World (1934), his first under the Production Code,…
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…perhaps best of the lot, Lady Killer, with Cagney in one of his finest comic roles as a gangster on the lam who draws on his experience as a movie theatre usher to become a Hollywood star. After making the drama Upper World (1934), his first under the Production Code,…
Read More