This is my first experience with these types of movies. Film-Noir I think is what it is. Also my first exposure to James Cagney from what I can recall. I chose this as my first foray into the genre, because it was the only one I knew anything about. Of course that knowledge was from Tupac in the movie Juice and of course it’s now iconic line…”Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”

Anyway, with that said. I really liked it. I really dug Cagney. I really dug Virginia Mayo, and really dug how it played out. A good first introduction to both the film-noir genre, and James Cagney. The ending was good despite me seeing it 400x in numerous incarnations on numerous TV shows. I’ll definitely be checking out more in the genre. I DO think it was maybe 20 minutes too long, but it didn’t hurt the overall experience much.