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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Big screen legend James Cagney had one more memorable lowlife role to play after Cody Jarrett in "White Heat". Here he's cast as a small time creep, Ralph Cotter. Ralph masterminds a prison break, after which he hooks up with one of the people who helped him, Holiday Carleton (Barbara Payton). Ralph quickly proves himself to be masterful at scheming and manipulating, ensnaring one hapless person after another in his plans. He even goes so far as to blackmail corrupt police detectives Weber (Ward Bond) and Reece (Barton MacLane). He seemingly has no fear, being willing to try anything.Gordon Douglas ("Them!") directs with great efficiency. The storytelling, pacing, and editing are top notch, resulting in a very compelling drama that commands your attention consistently. It has barely an honourable character for over an hour and 42 minutes; those who come closest are poor Holiday, and the appealing Margaret Dobson (Helena Carter), a rich young gal who catches Ralphs' eye. The cast is full of excellent performers - Bond, MacLane, Luther Adler as savvy attorney Keith "Cherokee" Mandon, Steve Brodie, Rhys Williams, John Litel, William Frawley, Kenneth Tobey, Frank Reicher, Neville Brand, King Donovan. Cagney's brother William produced the picture and also appears on screen. Despite the presence of all these heavy hitters, it's Cagney who your eyes return to again and again. He was clearly a natural at playing this kind of character, which he does with style, tenacity, and wit.Scripted by Harry Brown, based on the story by Horace McCoy.Eight out of 10.

The smash hit of "White Heat" (after years of mostly forgettable crime films) made Warner Brothers take James Cagney again, keep him brutal, throw in some high society hijinks, another floozy blonde (this time Barbara Payton), repeat the violent nature of his anti-hero and hope success will strike again. The result is mixed, a confusing narrative told through flashbacks from courtroom witnesses, of how Cagney basically got law makers to become law breakers. One classic scene (Payton tossing coffee at Cagney as he humorously keeps asking her for the extra ingredients) is a valentine to the famous grapefruit scene from "The Public Enemy". However, the remainder of the movie is poorly edited that makes the film flow awkwardly.This film attempts to soften the brutality of Cagney's epileptic character from "White Heat" with the introduction of a thrill-seeking socialite (Helena Carter) which leads into the slow-moving mid section that covers more of how Cagney bribed and blackmailed each of the participants involved in his robbery scheme, introduced in the opening scene where Cagney's whereabouts are in question by the audience.As for the replacement of Virginia Mayo (who moved on to light-hearted musical comedy's) with Payton, they've got a new vixen on their hands, one you watch go from innocent to vindictive, in spite of being the typical blonde floozy with extremely black roots. This makes her multi- dimensional character even more interesting than Mayo's especially when Cagney confronts her with a broken booze bottle. Her rising anger, expressed though rage in her eyes, makes her character unforgettable.

James Cagney is in top form in this rare & obscure gem, obviously made to cash in on the success of White Heat. If you enjoyed White Heat you will relish Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Cagney does not disappoint & shows that he is still at his best as a gangster. No matter how evil & despicable Cagney was you could never really hate him. That was how charismatic & electrifying James Cagney was & only he could have played Cody Jarrett & Ralph Cotter. Cagney is more in control & more clever & manipulating as Ralph Cotter. Everyone gets sucked in & gets caught in his web from Crooked Cops played by Ward Bond & Barton Maclane, a crooked lawyer (Luther Adler), the moll (Barbara Payton), the wealthy businessman & his spoiled daughter. I like the scene where Cagney sets a trap for Inspector Webber (Ward Bond) by recording a conversation about plans for a bogus heist on record to blackmail & use against him to get what he wants. Cherokee Mandan says "Let's try it on for size", he gets Ralph a gun permit & later Cagney even gets the inspector to give him a policeman's uniform to undermine & cash in on a criminal racket."Any business that pays 50 grand is a good business to be in". Cagney seemed unstoppable & was in control of every situation, pushing the envelope & it's easy to see why Holiday Carlton (Barbara Payton) had to kill Cagney in the end for killing her brother during the prison break. I almost wished he hadn't of gotten killed by her because it seemed like the rich father & his daughter had some kind of good influence on him, Ezra Dobson later approves of their marriage & decides not to have it annulled & offers Cagney a proposition of managing his daughter's money(Helena Carter)who's richer than her father. When she asks Ralph why he carries a gun she asks to see it & intentionally tosses it in the water. "You don't need it any more", he was heading in a new direction & starting a new life of respectability & leaving his criminal life behind. Or would Ralph have just gotten greedy to their millions of $$ & bumped them off as well or would he have reformed ? We'll never know. Watch this movie, I highly recommend it !!

Hi, It's actually a right hand drive car but alas I can't be positive with the identification of it. I too thought it was a Mercedes but now know it probably isn't. It could well be an Hispano Suiza though. If you do an image internet search on this car a very similar one comes up albeit with a spare wheel attached to the door but it wouldn't be unknown for this to be removed by the production company because it got in the way. What I can say though is that it can decelerate from 110mph to 20mph in half a second (ha!)I will watch this with interest.I agree that it is a great film though. Film4 have just shown it for the second time to my knowledge. Hope they show Love Me Or Leave Me soon, a favourite of mine and apparently of Cagney himself. In both these films Cagney was in his early 50s, being born in 1899 but still believable as a character.