Among Warners Brothers’ classic gangster movies, the post-war gem White Heat (1949) may outrank even Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and Scarface, thanks in large part to aging James ...

I used to watch the great James Cagney gangster films on Sunday mornings when my parents didn’t drag me to church. My all-time favorite was Angels With Dirty Faces, which had Cagney as a bad-ass ...