One of the great classic films of all time. So you have a little bit of everything here from drama to romance to comedy to music and Cagney is the glue to fits it all together beautifully.
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In this movie is a very, very touching deathbed scene with he and Cagney. I've always found Huston to be an actor of great presence. The great Walter Huston plays Cohan's father. Cagney is his normal riveting self and Joan Leslie certainly makes an appealing female lead as Cohan's wife. Unlike today's biographies, this is a very positive story about a man who brought patriotism alive during World War I with such inspirational songs as "It's A Grand Old Flag" and "Over There." For some of us, listening to these songs can bring a tear or two. Cohan, the writer and Broadway star of many, many hit plays and hit songs. The story is simply the biography of George M. I never realized how beautifully filmed this was until I saw this on DVD. The transfer is magnificent and really brings out the great cinematography. If you pick up the two-disc special-edition DVD that came out several years ago, then you'll see this film in all it's glory. In fact, for the audience, most of this movie is pure "feel good." Almost all the characters are nice people, the story is inspirational and nicely patriotic and the songs are fantastic. This was "a labor of love," to use a cliché, and it's obvious how much fun he was having in this film. He was one of the great "tough guys" of all time on film, but dancing was his passion, he noted. James Cagney recalls in his autobiography that this movie was his favorite, largely due to his love of dancing.
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