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Never Steal Anything Small

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A singing, dancing Irish racketeer (James Cagney) steals a lawyer's (Roger Smith) wife (Shirley Jones) to control New York's waterfront.

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Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Tongue-in-cheek borrowings from Guys and Dolls and On the Waterfront seem to be mixed in this tossed salad of a gangland musical comedy. Nov 14, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member It's rather difficult to feel anything for the lead character, and it's even more difficult to determine what you should actually be feeling. The vague character model, combined with James Cagney's masterful performance provides the viewer with a strange confusing feeling. It's also difficult to pinpoint whether the problem is with the source material itself, or maybe it's translation to the screen, but the end result is confusing. Well, if you don't look too much into it, you can still have a good time. That is, if you watch the film only "skin-deep" you can appreciate the solid story and performances, but its when some introspective comes in that the story falls apart. Also, I wish that Jimmy had more musical performances. He only had about a couple of minutes of musical performance all together. Rather disappointing. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A singing, dancing Irish racketeer (James Cagney) steals a lawyer's (Roger Smith) wife (Shirley Jones) to control New York's waterfront.
Director
Charles Lederer
Producer
Aaron Rosenberg
Production Co
Universal/Universal Int
Genre
Musical, Comedy
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 34m