Each Dawn I Die

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Haunted by H Despite a strong James Cagney performance, George Raft steals the film by playing Hood Stacey with Raft's trademark cool and sinister flair. That's what Cagney and movie-going audiences believed upon EACH DAWN I DIE's release. Because Raft stole it, Cagney (though still friendly with Raft) refused to team up with Georgie again. Too bad for us. These two guys had a great chemistry. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/17/24 Full Review ed m Good solid crime noir. Doesn't get better than Jimmy Cagney and George Raft. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/04/24 Full Review deke p 1939 !! Good known cast. Crime/ Prison revolt drama ends with violent put down. Spoiler alert: how would hardened crime boss be so moral as to turn himself back into prison so he could save his honest. buddy & then break out? Ultimately suicidal. Saw good part of it again on late nite tv 11.7.21 Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Each Dawn I Die (1939) I think this is a pretty good prison film. If you like The Shawshank Redemption then you should enjoy this film for it’s story. I think I preferred George Raft’s performance as Hood Stacey more than James Cagney’s performance as Frank Ross. Mainly because George Raft as Hood Stacey is the character who changes the most from beginning to the end of the film. Hood Stacey is a Gangster goes from a criminal to a guy out of prison who is convinced by Joyce portrayed by Jane Bryan that her Boy Friend Frank Ross is remaining silent being loyal for months in order for Hood Stacey to find the people who framed Frank. He goes from Crime Lord to change his ways to be loyal to someone who did right. Now in the case of James Cagney as Frank Ross he goes almost from the straight man and nearly is turned to criminal due to the injustice by the prison guards and Parole Board. He only remains strait due to his wife and Hood Stacey who stuck up for Frank. The scenes that stood out to me about this film came as the escape out of the court Room scene by jumping out of a window into a truck filled with something soft underneath. The stunt man jumping out of the building looked impressive for such a tall brick building. Another scene was the prison guard hitting one of the prisoners unconscious just before he said he was not working due to being dizzy and hitting the prisoner down and his head hit the metal of the rope factory machine. Then the guard saying it was an accident when it clearly was not. The other thing was seeing how gun happy the guards and national guard got just shooting to the last man when the prisoners were trying to surrender. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/06/20 Full Review Audience Member GOOD movie, "Each Dawn I Die"(1939), that I recommend! I first saw it on my TV at 7:00pm(CT) Sunday March 22, 2020. (I wrote these comments at 11:28am(CT) Monday March 23, 2020.) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member hasn't aged perfectly but still enjoyable and with an underlying point Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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