PICTURE SNATCHER.
James Cagney & Ralph Bellamy,
Patricia Ellis, Alice White, Ralf Harolde.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon, 1933, Warner Bros.

SYNOPSIS:
This movie doesn't stop for a breath. You can sense from its timing, and the way the actors run rather than walk and gabber rather than talk, that it was filmed in just 15 days. Its a good, enjoyable Cagney movie but it's shallow and quite hard to relax into.

"I was walking through a scene with Ralph Bellamy, laying out what I was going to do. I stood outside a door waiting for my cue, bounced in and went to Ralph's desk. We did our words, there was a phone call during it, and then I has some more words, and then out of the room. Suddenly I heard Lloyd yell 'Cut. Print it!' I said 'Hey you - I was rehearsing!' 'It looked fine from here.' he said. That was the ultimate efficiency - shooting a damned rehearsal!"
- Jimmy Cagney.

REVIEWS:
"A vulgar but generally funny collection of blackouts."
- Time.
"Fast, snappy, tough and packed with action."
- New York Herald Tribune.