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Written by James M. Tate / 12/21/2021 / No comments / comedy , crime , douglass dumbrille , hollywood satire , james cagney , mae clarke , margaret lindsay , thirties , warner archives

JAMES CAGNEY 'LADY KILLER' MAE CLARKE & MARGARET LINDSAY

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-PjgA3mYV5jPxIn_fnZrnop3pdu4MegL-nV2kZexaRe8e8_FiOtClOnTVMk3bvBjCQXaq8BtlVP4TseDOc5Z4ot2xp7sPlyUR1kbF1b4ZMfQlh85lPsWyuFTfGnm2czCRa3TnUsxFyx62s5mQDeBLNsdQJGYaNdcpJC1lGamr3icmXvr23015p1CmAQ=s1079" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="1079" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-PjgA3mYV5jPxIn_fnZrnop3pdu4MegL-nV2kZexaRe8e8_FiOtClOnTVMk3bvBjCQXaq8BtlVP4TseDOc5Z4ot2xp7sPlyUR1kbF1b4ZMfQlh85lPsWyuFTfGnm2czCRa3TnUsxFyx62s5mQDeBLNsdQJGYaNdcpJC1lGamr3icmXvr23015p1CmAQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LADY KILLER Year: 1933 Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Mae Clarke Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>James
 Cagney plays a shifty usher at a movie theater, so his character’s 
already geared towards the lights, camera and especially action (and distraction from the very start. But 
he’s quickly derailed, conned by PUBLIC ENEMY siren Mae Clarke into a rigged card 
game involving Douglass Dumbrille and his gang of crooks... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But Cagney's Dan Quigley, after catching on, instead of getting angry, or even, or both, he joins and 
eventually leads the group into nightclub ownership and then a bigger heist that lands them in real 
dough, and real trouble...</p><p><span></span></p>

comedy, crime, douglass dumbrille, hollywood satire, james cagney, mae clarke, margaret lindsay, thirties, warner archives

JAMES CAGNEY 'LADY KILLER' MAE CLARKE & MARGARET LINDSAY

Title: LADY KILLER Year: 1933 Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Mae Clarke Rating: **** James Cagney plays a shifty usher at a movie th...

Written by James M. Tate / 8/04/2016 / No comments / cop , douglass dumbrille , ivan bonar , jack younger , jazz-score , john holland , larue farlow , maury dexter , merry anders , neo noir , ray dannis , robert dix , russ bender , sixties , willard parker

MERRY ANDERS WITH ROBERT DIX IN MAURY DEXTER'S 'AIR PATROL'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Terrific Fox DVD Cover Art YEAR: 1962</u></td></tr>
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In AIR PATROL, one of many low-budget movies directed by b-producer Maury Dexter, the wheels of justice move slowly, and the blades even slower. Scenes with the police helicopter dotting the blue sky of what seems like the rural suburbs just beyond a skyscraper-laden landscape, takes some time, but are still suspenseful and entertaining: Beginning with a soundtrack like any cop program of that era, though leaning on a jazzy upbeat over the usual forceful punch... other times providing bits of Halloween horror flick Tiburon sounds... as a faceless male thief steals a painting, and then takes off in a helicopter that meets him on that high-rise building's roof...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Merry Anders as Mona</u></td></tr>
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The one-man knockoff went easy enough, and only one lady, working late, got in the way: but only for the amount of time to get bonked unconscious in this breezy Late Noir with a beautiful, edgy, cranky, cop-hating ingenue, with old school chops of one of those brisk and edgy Femme Fatalle's, or the curt best friend of the leading lady on here, she's in the lead...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Merry Anders plays it tough in Air Patrol</u></td></tr>
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Waking up after the heist with a feeling liken to a hangover, or worse, and she's our primary starlet, looking better than ever: that being Merry Anders, as part of our ongoing "Merry Anders Cinema" and/or, on other flicks sans the exotically wide-eyed ingenue, Maury Dexter Cinema, for her already covered in b-movie write-ups of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/07/anders1-HYP-EYE.html">THE HYPNOTIC EYE</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/07/merry-anders-cinema-raiders-from.html">RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA</a>, here playing Mona, under questioning in the same office building by a wise, patient yet assertive veteran cop Lt. Taylor played by Willard Parker and then our hero, a mellow, younger lawman whose primary task is a flier in the AIR PATROL. Bob Dix is a personal friend of Cult Film Freak, having starred of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/08/hells-bloody-devils-fakers.html">HELL'S BLOODY DEVILS</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/08/satans-sadists.html">SATAN'S SADISTS</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/robert-dix-five-bloody-graves.html">FIVE BLOODY GRAVES</a>, and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/06/first-archive-bagful.html">FORBIDDEN PLANET</a>. His Sgt. Castle slowly melts Anders down into not being so feisty and aggravated... But that's skipping ahead...<br>

cop, douglass dumbrille, ivan bonar, jack younger, jazz-score, john holland, larue farlow, maury dexter, merry anders, neo noir, ray dannis, robert dix, russ bender, sixties, willard parker

MERRY ANDERS WITH ROBERT DIX IN MAURY DEXTER'S 'AIR PATROL'

Terrific Fox DVD Cover Art YEAR: 1962 In AIR PATROL, one of many low-budget movies directed by b-producer Maury Dexter, the wheels of ju...

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