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      Never Steal Anything Small

      1959 1 hr. 34 min. Musical Comedy List
      Reviews A singing, dancing Irish racketeer (James Cagney) steals a lawyer's (Roger Smith) wife (Shirley Jones) to control New York's waterfront. Read More Read Less

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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 Post a rating

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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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      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
      Production Co
      Universal/Universal Int
      Genre
      Musical, Comedy
      Original Language
      English