James Cagney – MRQE

American Masters:: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (TVE)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

Boy Meets Girl

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio’s cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress’s baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby’s father. But the extra already knows the waitress…

Love Me or Leave Me

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

Shake Hands with the Devil

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the “Black & Tans,” special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O’Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization…under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has “shaken hands with the devil” and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

The Time of Your Life

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick’s, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmates sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the citys underworld and meets a powerful tycoons whimsical daughter.

Something to Sing About

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.

Ragtime

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Taxi!

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.

Winner Take All

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?