A Great Guy

Oh no! Grocers, butchers, gas stations and other merchants are shafting customers! That five pounds of sugar you bought? It’s actually only four and a quarter pounds! Organized crime is running a racket. Who’s going to do something about this situation? Why, Johnny Cave…

Chris Hughes

Cagney playing a good guy (indeed a 'great guy') for a change on his break from Warner Bros. This quickie, produced by the small Grand National studio, sees him as an ex-boxer turned investigator for the New York Bureau of Weights and Measures! Which turns out to be one of…

williamfaeleith

One has to love the 30s when James Cagney could star in a hard boiled film about the Weight and Measures Department fight to make sure the public isn’t cheated by cartels trying to increase profits. It is nothing one haven’t seen for Cagney vehicle before, this time on a…

Filipe Furtado

A slow moving story about corruption in the big city. James Cagney works for the Division of Weights and Measures and gives out citations to shops that are ripping off the customers. This get him in trouble with the corrupt folks running the town for some reason. There are…

RetroHound

From Public Enemy to...erm...a crusading inspector of the city's Weights and Measures Department?! Yes, that pound of bacon you're selling better be correct to the very ounce or Cagney will come at you with both fists flying! A moralising quickie from the Grand…

Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸

A lively programmer, with Cagney in irressistible form as an incorruptible investigator for the Department of Weights and Measures (Hollywood having apparently run out of sensible jobs for its crime-fighting heroes), winking, pouting and slapping people around, all in the…

Rick Burin

Good old James Cagney, pretty much single-handedly making this little jaunt about an inspector from the New York Department of Weights and Measures quite engaging.  He doesn’t just inspect meat, whoever wrote the Letterboxd logline! He inspects anything that can be weighed…

Chloe

Cagney not in the part of the mobster, but rather of those who defeat the mob, in an almost detective way even if then he solves everything with fists (those of Cagney are actually slap pushed on face). Cagney, therefore, at the head of a "Wight and Measure" social…

daniwiller87

Post-code Cagney, the unimpeachaably righteous guy on the goodguy side, but still sporting the dynamics of his more ambiguous 1931-33 characters. I like the way this works that vein better than what I remember of G-Men -- this is really very slick, speedy and…

Lencho of the Apes