Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

classicsoncall Man, don't you just love the dialog in these early pre-Code films? In 1931's "Blonde Crazy", right after Jimmy Cagney's character sets up Joan Blondell with a job as a hotel linen girl, he offers to bring up some 'hooch' and sandwiches! In an opening scene here, Flicker Hayes (Cagney) rats out a couple of his former hoodlum cronies to the police, stating that the warehouse job about to be pulled has a 'safe full of junk and nose candy'! Wow! Nose candy! Apparently the cop on the other end of the line knew what he was talking about, he didn't even bat an eye.This was the third film in which Cagney and Blondell had a relationship of sorts. The other two were "Sinners Holiday" (1930) and "Blonde Crazy" (1931). Actually, Blondell's former prostitute character Rose Lawrence is somewhat of a conflicted woman here, juggling her romantic possibilities between Jerry Allen (Flicker's assumed name in San Francisco) and Portugese fisherman Nick Gardell. For Victor Jory, the role of Nick appeared to be an uncomfortable one and generally outside his comfort zone. Or maybe I'm just used to seeing him as a tough guy or villain most of the time. The romantic type just doesn't seem to fit him.So when Jerry ditches Rose and she can't make her mind up about telling Nick she can't/won't marry him, it leaves all kinds of question marks in the mind of the viewer. I thought that was a pretty good speech she made Jerry when she said she was still pulling for him after he dumped her, making him feel every bit the heel he was. Which wasn't a stretch really, considering the fact that one of the hoods he set up got the chair after he took their fifteen large for the botched warehouse heist.What goes around comes around I guess when bad guys have a falling out. It would seem on the surface the picture had a happy ending with Rose and Nick finally hooking up. In just about any other picture you might have heard an off screen gunshot to know that Flicker's fate was sealed; here you had to read between the lines a little bit to realize he would never make it to the wedding reception.

utgard14 James Cagney plays masculinely-named ex-con Flicker who rats out his criminal buddies because they were responsible for his going to prison. Now Flicker has to hightail it out of town so he escorts ex-prostitute Rose (Joan Blondell) to a small fishing village where she is supposed to marry Portuguese fisherman Nick (Victor Jory). Staying with Nick and his mother, Flicker quickly grows to like them. But Flicker and Rose have fallen in love, which complicates things. Meanwhile, Flicker's location is discovered and two hit men are sent to rub him out.Cagney's character is a cocky ladies' man, as they typically were, but he does evolve throughout the movie. Cagney's also sporting a mustache in this one. At first I thought maybe he just drank some chocolate milk and forgot to wipe his mouth but nope, it's a 'stache alright! Victor Jory's Nick is the saintly salt-of-the-earth common man type that you saw so much of in Depression-era movies. It's style (Cagney) vs. substance (Jory) in the battle for Joan Blondell's heart. Nice supporting cast includes Harold Huber, Frank Craven, and John Qualen, among many other recognizable faces. It's a middle-of-the-road picture in the oeuvres of both Cagney and Blondell. The last of seven they made together. It's not a bad movie but the somber tone is a tough sell when you have two firecracker actors as leads.

calvinnme Something is missing from this film, and that something is the electricity that Blondell and Cagney had in all of their joint projects up to this time, the beginning of the enforcement of the production code.James Cagney plays a Flicker Hayes, a safe-cracker who turns in his old gang to the police after they recruit him for a new job right after he gets out of prison. You see, Flicker knows his gang let him take the rap alone and he's looking for payback. However, before he turns them in he takes a large pre-payment from them in cash for the upcoming job which he knows will never happen. Flicker is now on the run as the members of the gang that did not get arrested have a hit out on him. While in San Francisco he runs into Rose Lawrence (Joan Blondell), a penniless woman on her way to marry a fisherman. Cagney has both romantic interest in and sympathy for Rose right from the start. He feeds her then escorts her and pays her way to the town where her fiancé is waiting. The most confusing part of the story is - why would Nick the fisherman decide to marry a prostitute he barely knows (that is the insinuation of what Rose's profession was) then - knowing she is penniless, leave her to find her own way to him? This part of the story probably had some aspect that caused it to be left on the cutting room floor thanks to the censors.Once at Nick's house, both Flicker and Rose have trouble keeping both their pasts and their passions at bay. Plus a mysterious rancher shows up who wants to do some recreational fishing and also winds up a guest at Nick's house - there is no hotel in the small town.Although the film is worth a look, don't look for the smart remarks and innuendos that previous Cagney/Blondell films are filled with. The hard edges of their past precodes are as hidden as Cagney's upper lip is under the odd mustache he sports throughout this film.

bkoganbing He Was Her Man finds Joan Blondell torn between two men, petty crook James Cagney who's on the lam and Victor Jory the simple Portugese fisherman who's town Cagney has taken it on the lam to.Blondell's a former working girl who's also been around the track a few too many times. But she's looking for some kind of salvation in a marriage with Jory. But then Cagney comes along and she's ready to forsake all that.Cagney is a safecracker who apparently took a bad rap for some partners who doublecrossed him. He pays them back in kind by taking his cut up front and then squealing on the two of them. One dies after killing a policeman in the electric chair, but the second puts out the word to the criminal underworld that Cagney's wanted. That's why Cagney's on the run.Sadly enough He Was Her Man will never rank at the top or even the middle group of Cagney films. I think it was botched in the editing department to keep it down to a 70 minute length, pretty skimpy for a feature film now. My guess is that the Code was just coming into force and Warner Brothers was trying to keep the film respectable, but probably edited out some needed parts for the story to make sense.Compared to films like Smart Money and Footlight Parade, the team of Cagney and Blondell came a cropper with this one.