Blonde Crazy

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Steve D Smart fun script but the ending doesn't fit. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/24 Full Review Russ G Not a bad B picture at all. I'm a fan of these classic films that clock in under an hour and 15 minutes; they don't drag. Blondell and Cagney are perfect together; this is only the 2nd movie I've seen her in; the other was in the supporting role of the lady dealer "Lady Fingers" in The Cincinnati Kid. It's easy to see why Depression era audiences would have taken to her. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/04/22 Full Review Audience Member A pleasant yarn about a man and woman who team up as con artists all the while plotting to make each other jealous enough to fall in love with him/her. James Cagney is a lovable tough guy and Joan Blondell is appealing in a role that takes women seriously. Johnny C sez check it out for the acting if not the plot. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Great performances by Cagney and Blondell carry this film. A pre-code production that falls on one of the "best" lists. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member not great by todays standards, but pretty good for just exiting the silent movie era Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Jimmy Cagney is larger than life here, just a few movies on from his breakthrough in The Public Enemy (also 1931), as a bellboy turned big stakes grifter, travelling from hotel to hotel working his cons. At the start of the film, he picks up his partner, Joan Blondell who all the men leer at (in this pre-code film) but who provides a ready slap to anyone who gets too frisky. Together, they swindle Guy Kibbee (stock dirty old man of the 1930s) and then hope to use the proceeds to make more money by teaming up with old hand Louis Calhern - who promptly tricks them out of it along with his own blonde partner Noel Francis (the lure for Cagney). The rest of the movie is spent trying to get back at Calhern with a big con of their own, while Blondell falls in love with heel Roy Milland, leaving self-centered wisecracking Cagney on his own. Although the film seems largely a comedy, we get a few nods to the gangster genre where Cagney made his biggest splash - but he still moves like the dancer he longed to be. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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