Screen legend James Cagney, in his final musical performance, plays a lovable, larcenous longshoreman in this rapid-fire, song-filled spoof of union politics. Cagney sings and dances his way to the top of the heap as Jake MacIllaney, a combination Yankee Doodle Dandy and Robin Hood, who empties company and union coffers alike to become president of the Stevedore's union. The sly MacIllaney also has his eye on his lawyer's beautiful wife and reaches...

A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during the waning days of World War II. In the Navy Register it is listed as 'The Reluctant, ' but to its crew it is known as 'The Bucket.' The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant martinet of a captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked...

"Relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in Prohibition-era urban America"--Wikipedia.

A carefree ex-newspaperman Tom Richards is arrested for vagrancy, he's saved from a jail term when Vinnie McLeod, an elderly editor of a floundering local paper, offers him a job. Together they're out to make headlines as they work to expose political corruption in a small town. They refuse to buckle under the threats and demands of corrupt, rival newspaper owner, Big Boss Dougherty. So the suspense mounts as they stand their ground against Dougherty's...