KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE.
James Cagney & Luther Adler,
Barbara Payton, Barton MacLane, Ward Bond.
Dir: Gordon Douglas, 1950, Cagney Productions.

SYNOPSIS:
Late period gangster flick, lighter in heart than White Heat and featuring many of those sly, Cagney comic touches. The plot is a little confused but the energy and the completely heartless lead character turn it into a winner. There's no motherlove psychosis to explain this jail-breaking, girl-slapping, gun-toting robber's pathological nastiness, which makes it all the more real because, as we know, some people are just bastards.

"That damned good actor Luther Adler taught me an acting trick I have remembered. Luther's really chilling moment in the picture came as he was sitting at a desk, just about to look up at me. Instead of lifting his face and looking at me at the same time, he lifted his face only, his eyes remained hooded, looking down. Then, after his head was fully raised, he lifted his eyelids and stared slowly at me with infinite menace."
- Jimmy Cagney.

REVIEWS:
"Surprisingly brutal star melodrama which failed to repeat the success of White Heat."
- Leslie Halliwell.
"The mixture as before without an ingredient changed."
- Otis Guernsey Junior.