Actors/Artists:  James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong

Director:  William Keighley

Features:

• Warner Night at the Movies 1935 Short Subjects Gallery:
• ·Vintage Newsreel
• ·Comedy Short The Old Grey Mayor Starring Bob Hope
• ·Classic Cartoon Buddy the Gee Man
• ·Trailers of "G" Men and 1935's Devil Dogs of the Air
• New Featurette Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
• Commentary by Film Historian Richard Jewell
• How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 11: Practice Shots
• Things You Never See on the Screen: Breakdowns of 1935 Studio Blooper Reel

Aspect Ratio:

Full Frame

Audio:

English: Mono [cc]

Subtitles:   English, Spanish, French

DC-DVD Price: £16.75

In 1931, James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. In 1935, he waged on-screen war against the nation's public enemies. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in "G" Men.

Emphasis may have changed but elements are the same. "G" Men builds to a fury of bold escapes, siren-wailing pursuits and frenzied shootouts. "Anything worth newspaper space is worth a movie," Warner Bros. executive Lou Edelman declared. Here, a punchy hot-off-the-presses account of the pursuit and capture of John Dillinger provides the story inspiration as tough-guy Cagney gives it to 'em good in a movie that's "fast, gutsy, as simplistic and powerful as a tabloid headline" (Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide).