Jimmy Cagney is in fine form in this 1934 film playing trucker Eddie Kennedy who has an affinity for landing in jail numerous times for a variety of reasons.
Problem with this film is its length-barely 75 minutes and it appeared that the ending was rushed up.
Cagney is tough but is smooth on the outside as well as he gets involved with a farmer's strike against a local milk company.
Of course, the company hires hoodlums to drive those trucks through the farmer lines and nothing is really serious until a farmer is shot to death and a woman who witnessed this, first an adversary but then friend to Kennedy is kidnapped.
Cagney uses shenanigans to find out her location. That judge is a riot, Cagney shows how easy it is to walk out of jail at night to have a rendezvous with the woman and Allen Jenkins adds much comic relief to a film that would have been rated higher had it not ended so quickly.
Problem with this film is its length-barely 75 minutes and it appeared that the ending was rushed up.
Cagney is tough but is smooth on the outside as well as he gets involved with a farmer's strike against a local milk company.
Of course, the company hires hoodlums to drive those trucks through the farmer lines and nothing is really serious until a farmer is shot to death and a woman who witnessed this, first an adversary but then friend to Kennedy is kidnapped.
Cagney uses shenanigans to find out her location. That judge is a riot, Cagney shows how easy it is to walk out of jail at night to have a rendezvous with the woman and Allen Jenkins adds much comic relief to a film that would have been rated higher had it not ended so quickly.