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| Lobby Card for HE WAS HER MAN Year: 1934 |
James Cagney dime-novel-style programmer has his character Flicker Hayes, newly released from prison,
dangerously double-crossing the hoods who'd double-crossed him as two more goons plan to keep on
his trail...
Beginning in San Fransisco where he meets Joan Blondell, as a prostitute
setting her mind on marrying a simple fisherman in a John Steinbeck
Monterrey style seaside town. She has a seemingly benign passenger
in Cagney's Hayes, both hiding out in completely different ways. Cagney's surprisingly soft-spoken here, but not nearly as much as dutiful
Victor Jory as the fisherman who doesn't
care about Blondell's past. This is merely a distraction to Cagney's
story that, in itself, distracts from what the movie's
leading to — with armed goons on the way, it doesn't look likely he'll
survive...
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| HE WAS HER MAN Rating: ***1/2 |
Veteran
(even at that time) character-actor Frank Craven fits nicely into the
mellow rural proto-Noir — in CITY OF CONQUEST he was a narrating roman chorus bum and here he's
a con man "rat" with a trick up his sleeve, ultimately at Cagney's expense: our previously selfish crook is headed toward a crossroad since Blondell loves him madly...
The fishing village connected to
the passage seaward is like a dream milieu to the first early Cagney
programmer that's more a crime-related, dime-novel inspired fable than his usual rambling con-man connected heist thriller. What it lacks in the usual edgy excitement or spontaneously sarcastic humor is made up for within the creative storyline in this
page-turning melodrama with a more poetic than satisfying, noir-esque
conclusion.
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| James Cagney in the opening credits of HE WAS HER MAN |
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| Joan Blondell in the opening credits of HE WAS HER MAN |
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| James Cagney and Joan Blondell in HE WAS HER MAN |
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| James Cagney as Flicker Hayes in HE WAS HER MAN |
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| James Cagney and Victor Jory in HE WAS HER MAN |
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| James Cagney and Sarah Padden in HE WAS HER MAN |
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| James Cagney and Joan Blondell in HE WAS HER MAN |
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| James Cagney and Joan Blondell in HE WAS HER MAN |
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James Cagney in HE WAS HER MAN
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James Cagney in HE WAS HER MAN with Frank Craven
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| James Cagney in HE WAS HER MAN with Joan Blondell |
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| Joan Blondell in HE WAS HER MAN |
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James Cagney in HE WAS HER MAN
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James Cagney in HE WAS HER MAN with Frank Craven & Victor Jory
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James Cagney in HE WAS HER MAN with Joan Blondell
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