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Very well executed

Memorable, crazy movie

Absolutely the worst movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

" . . . chair?" the White House Pool Reporters' representatives playing their parts about 45 minutes into Warner Bros.' prophetic PICTURE SNATCHER idly speculate as they wait for the biggest stinkers of the odoriferous Rump\Scents Administration to be Drowned in Cages during a Live Two-Hour Reality Show Special Event HIGH TREASON APPRENTICE: TRAITORS AWAY! Warner Bros.' prognosticators of America's (Then) Far Future remind us that when Kellyanne & Co. go down for the Final Count, it's imperative to stream their watery demises to a Worldwide Live Audience, so that the Deplorable Rump\Scents Enablers won't argue that this Mass Liquidation is "Fake News" like Evolution, the Moon Landings, Global Warming, Dinosaurs, 9-11, The Ten Commandments, and The Gospels. PICTURE SNATCHER predicts that SOME of Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin's Rich People Party Fifth Columnists will meet their doom fighting in hails of gunfire, such as the Traitor-in-Chief's son-in-law, "Jerry-the-Mug" Kushner. Hopefully, the Real Life S.W.A.T. team will be as successful as the cops here in PICTURE SNATCHER in thwarting Jerry's use of his wife and kiddies as Human Shields, because where will we be without First Daughter Iwanna's Fashion Line?

Available on an excellent Warner DVD, this is one of Cagney's best films. It moves fast, it moves fresh and it moves daringly, challenging authority figures and authority stances all the way. The dialogue is brisk and natural, with plenty of wisecracks and lots of daring characterizations. The plot turns are likewise original and natural, and despite their fast-moving pace, are easy to follow. Only in one or two cases, does the character played by Ralph Bellamy spend too much time explaining the score for the benefit of three or four dumb- bells in the audience. Otherwise, it's speed, speed, speed with plenty of changes of scene and unexpected plot developments – all delivered at a super-brisk pace by director Lloyd Bacon, of all people! Until Picture Snatcher came my way I always regarded Bacon as a competent but totally undistinguished craftsman, True, he did direct Cain and Mabel (1936) and that is a terrific movie, but most critics (including stupid me) ascribe its success to Marion Davies – a gal who really knew what she wanted and how to get it!

Snappy Tabloid Journalism Story with James Cagney Developing into a Photographer out to get the Goods on those who are Down and can't Fight Back. But in this Yellow Journal Yarn He is so Energetic, Lighthearted, and Light on His Feet it All seems in Good Fun. The way the Picture is Handled it is, although the Subject Matter is Very Lurid at Times.Not the Pre-Code Sexual Stuff that has Pretty Dames Baring Some Skin and Making with the Bedroom Eyes, or Cagney Slapping them around when Their Sexual Advances are Unwelcome. But the Actual Assignments. Photographing a Woman at the Moment of Her Execution for Murder (with a camera smuggled into Sing Sing), a Firemans Breakdown after He finds His Wife in Bed with Another, or the Finale that is a Rousing Shoot em' Up with Machine Guns Blasting Away with Children in the Crossfire.This is some Pretty Gruesome Goings On Amidst the Comedic Banter and the Overall Tone of the Delivery that the Film Takes On. But Overall, it Works to the Benefit of Entertainment and the Film has a Distinctive Edge and Feel that After the Code would be Gone for Decades.

This is a rather strange early Code film that features Jimmy Cagney as a sleazy ex-con who now devotes his energies to taking pictures for newspapers. But, given his larcenous nature, he specializes in getting the pictures no one else would dare take due to good taste! For example, at an execution, he insinuates himself into the prison as a witness to the execution and snaps a photo surreptitiously--getting his paper a big scoop on the competition. While Cagney's character is sleazy, he is also rather likable in the usual plucky and swaggering way the public learned to expect during the 1930s. However, in the film, all this bravado and lack of good taste eventually came to haunt him--after all, who would want a boyfriend or husband like that?! An interesting curio that is both entertaining and original.