Directed by William KeighleyMy rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)
Cagney is framed for murder and sent to prison. He meets career criminal Raft and the two strike up a friendship. Before you know it, Cagney is a hardboiled criminal himself and becomes one of the worst prisoners. His transformation from mild-mannered newspaperman to angry prisoner was a little too fast and easy. Of course, that's what the audience wanted, Cagney is the ultimate gangster, but the production code demanded that criminals could not be glamorized, so they made him a newspaperman. Anyway, Raft plans an escape, and once on the outside goes after the men who framed Cagney. It all leads to a prison riot, where bad man Raft gets his just reward and good man Cagney is set free, just like the code demands.
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