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03/09/1943 Drama 1h 37m
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A Story of a Wanderer Who Stops His Travels Long Enough to Help A Kindly Old Woman in Distress

Overview

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.

  1. William K. Howard

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. James Cagney

    Tom Richards

  2. Grace George

    Vinnie McLeod

  3. Marjorie Main

    'Gashouse' Mary

  4. Marjorie Lord

    Jane

  5. Hattie McDaniel

    Aida

  6. Edward McNamara

    W.M. Dougherty

  7. William Henry

    Pete Dougherty

  8. Robert Barrat

    Bill Swain

  9. George Cleveland

    Willie Ferguson

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-08-21
“Vinnie” (Grace George) has been running the “Banner & Shield” newspaper for a very long time, but it’s no longer what it was and she has had to mortgage everything to the hilt to keep the thing, and it’s quirky collection of staff, from the scrap heap. She is a woman of integrity, though, and so when she attends the local court she encounters “Tom” (James Cagney) who is being accused of vagrancy. He claims to have been a newspaper man, so to save him jail she offers him a job. He accepts as an expedient to spare him incarceration, but she insists that he come and live with her...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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