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| James Cagney | ... | 'Brick' Davis | |
| Margaret Lindsay | ... | Kay McCord | |
| Ann Dvorak | ... | Jean Morgan | |
| Robert Armstrong | ... | Jeff McCord | |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Collins | |
| Lloyd Nolan | ... | Hugh Farrell | |
| William Harrigan | ... | 'Mac' McKay | |
| Russell Hopton | ... | Gerard | |
| Edward Pawley | ... | Danny Leggett | |
| Noel Madison | ... | Durfee | |
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| Regis Toomey | ... | Eddie Buchanan | |
| Addison Richards | ... | Bruce J. Gregory | |
| Harold Huber | ... | Venke | |
| Raymond Hatton | ... | Gangsters' Messenger with Warning | |
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Lawyer Brick Davis (James Cagney) is a fresh-out-of-school law graduate with no clients. When his old friend Eddie Buchanan (Regis Toomey) stops in town, he approaches Davis to become a 'G Man' - a member of a newly formed federal force that uses brains combined with brawn to make the perfect law enforcement. Davis isn't interested, but when Buchanan is shot dead by a gang of organised thugs, he joins up instantly, and begins to distance himself with his criminal clients. Upon arrival at the FBI recruitment centre, he knocks heads with his newly-appointed mentor Jeff McCord (Robert Armstrong) who dislikes the amount of law graduates they are getting. When the gang that Davis left behind start to cause mayhem on a federal scale, Davis uses his knowledge and experience to bring the gang to justice.
With all the Pre-Code mayhem that was taking over the cinemas back in the 1930's, people began worrying about the flattering, anti-hero portrayals that the criminal underworld were getting. Films such as the 1932 version of Scarface, and The Public Enemy (also starring Cagney) both showed them in a flattering light, so G-Men wanted to make the law cool again. Cagney's Brick Davis is very much like the villains portrayed in these films - he's ambitious, tough, intelligent - but he's also moral. The criminals, however, are portrayed as pure scum, and (in a quite shocking scene) capable of killing women without thinking twice. More of an FBI propaganda film than a film noir or a crime film, but it's easily watchable. Yet apart from a couple of bloody good shootouts and the odd surprise, the film never really grips and it does lack the usual bite from Cagney.
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