G MEN.
James Cagney & Ann Dvorak,
Margaret Lindsay, Barton MacLane, Lloyd Nolan.
Dir: William Keighley, 1935, Warner Bros.

SYNOPSIS:
Cagney plays a good hood who effortlessly signs up with a very relaxed FBI to catch some gangsters who bumped off his pal. It speeds up into a pretty lively film with all the fast-lipped action that we like, albeit portrayed from the other side of the criminal coin as a token gesture to the censors.

"G-Men was a step up the ladder artistically. There was a great deal of interest at the time in these forceful and thoroughgoing champions of the law, and there was an effort to make the film as authentic as possible."
- Jimmy Cagney.

REVIEWS:
"Cagney joins the government and cleans up the gangsters. Just loads of action, knocked off in the bing-bang manner."
- Variety.
"The gangster is back, racing madly through one of the fastest melodramas ever made."
- New York Sun.
"It is not violence alone which is in the air; there is also a skillfully contrived and well maintained suspense, and throughout a feeling of respect for the men who are paid to die in the execution of necessary work."
- The Times.
"Not for the kiddies, but see it if your nerves are good."
- Photoplay.