Picture Snatcher
by Lloyd Bacon
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Actor: Alice White, James Cagney, Patricia Ellis, Ralf Harolde, Ralph BellamyDirector: Lloyd Bacon
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Allen Rivkin
Writer: Ben Markson
Writer: Daniel Ahern
Writer: P.J. Wolfson
Writer: William Keighley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Mono; English (Original Language), Mono; English (Published), Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 77 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Picture Snatcher
Movie Review: "Picture Snatcher (1933) ... James Cagney ... Lloyd Bacon (Director) (2008)"
Summary: 5 Stars
Warner Bros. Pictures presents "PICTURE SNATCHER" (6 May 1933) (77 min/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) -- The film is a typical early '30s entertaining and fast-moving with some wild dialog and plenty of action and humor --- It's vintage Cagney: tough, cocky, funny and endearing --- The cast breaths so much personality into their character that they become individuals --- Though we know Cagney will prevail, we don't know just how he will succeed, and that is where the drama comes from --- Quick paced that you won't leave the room without hitting the stop button first.
Great acting, a good story, a happy ending, some jazzy theme music and those great cars of the 1930s -- What more could you want?
The great James Cagney is a joy to watch in the film --- He was a charismatic actor that left his mark of excellence on each and every film he appeared in.
Under the production staff of:
Lloyd Bacon [Director]
Daniel Ahern [Story]
Allen Rivkin [adaptation]
P.J. Wolfson [adaptation]
Ben Markson [dialogue]
Leo F. Forbstein [Conductor: Vitaphone Orchestra]
Ray Heindorf [Composer: title music]
Cliff Hess [Composer: stock music ]
Sol Polito [Cinematographer]
William Holmes [Film Editor]
BIOS:
1. Lloyd Bacon [aka: Lloyd Francis Bacon]
Date of Birth: 4 December 1889 - San Jose, California
Date of Death: 15 November 1955 - Burbank, California
2. James Cagney [aka: James Francis Cagney]
Date of Birth: 17 July 1899 - New York City, New York
Date of Death: 30 March 1986 - Stanfordville, New York
the cast includes:
James Cagney - Danny Kean
Ralph Bellamy - J.R. 'Al' McLean
Patricia Ellis - Patricia 'Pat' Nolan
Alice White - Allison
Ralf Harolde - Jerry the Mug
Robert Emmett O'Connor - Lieutenant Casey Nolan
Robert Barrat - Grover, Graphic News Owner
G. Pat Collins - Hennessy the Fireman
Arthur Vinton - John, the Head Keeper
Tom Wilson - Leo
Mr. Jim's Ratings:
Quality of Picture & Sound: 5 Stars
Performance: 5 Stars
Story & Screenplay: 5 Stars
Overall: 5 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]
Total Time: 77 min on DVD ~ Warner Bros. Pictures ~ (03/25/2008)
Summary of Picture Snatcher
Here?s Cagney as Danny Kean, a former gangster who has decided to go straight after a stretch in the big house. Danny has fallen for Patricia (Patricia Ellis), the daughter of the cop who put him away (Robert Emmett O'Connor). Dad isn't convinced that Danny has left his life of crime behind him, and he isn't too impressed with his new career taking pictures for a sleazy tabloid newspaper. Between getting a lurid photo of a fireman in front of a burning building (where his wife and her lover met their fate) and a daring shot of a woman being executed (based an actual incident when a New York Daily News photographer got a photo of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair), Danny's work is selling papers but hardly making Officer O'Connor think his daughter is in good hands (especially since he was in charge of press security for the execution).Picture Snatcher is exemplary early Cagney, 77 hard-charging minutes with the favorite son of the Lower East Side as a brash ex-con determined to go straight. How straight is a delicate question, since his job is scoring sensational photos for a raunchy tabloid. Picture Snatcher was made before the Production Code cast its puritanical shadow over Hollywood, and the script features two memorably morbid sequences--Cagney's debut as a literal picture snatcher, and the snapping of a clandestine prison-death-house photo--as well as abundant opportunities for risqué byplay, gallows humor, and freewheeling amorality. Lloyd Bacon (soon to direct Cagney in Footlight Parade) makes yeoman work of it all, even getting away with scenes in the newspaper's restroom, and staging a last-reel shootout ferocious enough to be worthy of a real gangster movie. With Ralph Bellamy as Cagney's newspaper boss (rare for him in those days to get a smart-guy role), Patricia Ellis as Cagney's girl (the daughter of the cop who sent him up), and sex-pixie Alice White stealing just about any scene she's in. --Richard T. Jameson
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