Blonde Crazy

Cagney plays a nonviolent con man who lives by his wits instead of the muscle he flexed earlier in THE PUBLIC ENEMY. He is a bellhop who connives to get his girl friend Blondell a job in the hotel's linen room. They next compromise a sucker in the old badger game; Blondell is caught necking with the sucker in a car where Cagney has planted a bottle of booze (then against the law, it being Prohibition). The investigating cop is a plant whom Cagney persuades to leave as he comes upon the scene, later demanding and getting a payoff from the sucker for the favor. Cagney and Blondell next move to the big time, NYC, where the tables are reversed: Calhern fleeces Cagney o...