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Director:
Lloyd Bacon
Writers:
Warren Duff (story) &
Seton I. Miller (story)
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Release Date:
30 November 1935 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Romance more
Plot:
Bat Morgan is nearly shanghaied on his way to the gold fields of California. Instead he kills Shanghai... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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James Cagney ... Bat Morgan
Margaret Lindsay ... Jean Barrat
Ricardo Cortez ... Paul Morra
Lili Damita ... Belle Morra
Donald Woods ... Charles Ford
Barton MacLane ... Spikder Burke
George E. Stone ... Solly Green
Joe King ... James Daley (as Joseph King)
Addison Richards ... William T. Coleman
Robert McWade ... Judge Stephen Crawford
Joseph Crehan ... McClanahan
Robert Strange ... Graber
Joe Sawyer ... Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
Fred Kohler ... Shanghai Duck
Edward McWade ... Tupper
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Runtime:
77 min (Turner library print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Yiddish
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #1477) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1936) | Finland:K-16 (1936)
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures more

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Cagney in S.F., 25 February 2008
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

Frisco Kid (1935)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

The Barbary Coast in San Francisco is the setting in this story of Bat Morgan (James Cagney), the man who would become the countries first racketeer. This is a decent little film but there's not enough energy to keep things moving as well as it should. Cagney, with a funky little haircut, is in good form but this is certainly not one of his greatest roles. The supporting cast is in good form and includes Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Donald Woods and George E. Stone. Cortez steals the show as the top guy in town but Stone adds some very good comic relief as Cagney's buddy. The highlight of the film is a terrific fight sequence between Cagney and a large man with a hook for a hand. The final twenty minutes deal with the city getting tired of the thugs and deciding to take the law into its own hands. We get another mob scene where they want to hang the bad men and this here is where the film should have taken off but things stay pretty bland and never get too exciting.

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