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Gerald Beaumont (story)
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Release Date:
16 July 1932 (USA) more
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Young boxer Jim Hunt, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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James Cagney ... Jim 'Jimmy' Kane
Marian Nixon ... Peggy Harmon
Guy Kibbee ... Pop Slavin
Dickie Moore ... Dickie Harmon
Virginia Bruce ... Joan Gibson
Alan Mowbray ... Forbes, the Etiquette Teacher
Esther Howard ... Ann, Joan's Friend
Clarence Muse ... Rosebud, the Trainer
Clarence Wilson ... Ben Isaacs
Ralf Harolde ... Legs Davis, Diamond Ring Seller
John Roche ... Roger Elliott
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66 min
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Pop Slavin: He can't leave 'em alone, he's just a Woman's Home Companion. more
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Features Queen of the Night Clubs (1929) more
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The Sidewalks of New York more

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9 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Cagney's Got Two Girls, 17 July 2006
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Winner Take All is a typical example of the roles James Cagney was so trying to get away from in those early years at Warner Brothers. In this programmer he's a lightweight prizefighter whose fans have to take up a collection in Madison Square Garden to send him away for a rest cure. Seems that Cagney liked the night life just a little too much and its put his health at risk.

While in New Mexico he meets and falls for good girl Marian Nixon and her son Dickie Moore. She's there with Moore for his health problems. An out of condition Cagney takes a local fight there to help pay for their expenses on a winner take all basis and barely survives the bout.

Then when he gets back to New York he starts hanging around with bad society girl Virginia Bruce and her crowd. She makes a chump out of street smart Jimmy.

I don't think I have to say too much more. Guy Kibbee as Cagney's manager and Clarence Muse as his corner man fill their roles very well.

The only two things that Winner Take All became noted for was that this was the first time Cagney did a boxing film. He got into the ring later on in The Irish in Us and City for Conquest. But also footage from this film was used in that last Cagney made for TV film Terrible Joe Moran.

That film was a mistake whereas this one is strictly routine.

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