Jimmy Cagney is wonderful. I mean, that's all you really need to know, right? is that this is a Jimmy Cagney movie? it is, run out and get it.

He's an ex-con, fresh from Sing-Sing, and determined to go straight. He goes home and blows off his old gang and talks himself into a job as a photographer for a tabloid newspaper, taking lurid pics that nobody else can get. His boss in a wonderful scenery-chewing role is Ralph Bellamy, and of course Cagney comes to a place where he has to decide between his old gang members and his new, not so lucrative but legal life.

This is a very good movie; Cagney is great, as always, but it's got a lot to say about feeding the public more and more sensational stuff. They also made Cagney do what had just recently been done: he smuggles a camera into an actual electrocution and the picture makes his reputation.

A good evening's watching.