Straight-shooting Joan Blondell and Jimmy Cagney paired up in films like "Public Enemy" (1931), "Blonde Crazy " (1931), "The Crowd Roars" (1932), and Footlight Parade" (1933) and this film has probably the least chemistry between the two. That doesn't mean that the two of them don't do their usual good job, and that's really all you have in this easily forgotten film about a safe cracker on the run with a former prostitute who wants to settle down in a small fishing village with a tender nice guy (played by Victor Jory which is one of his rare good guy appearances).
At this time in his career Cagney was having problems playing the tough guy killer, so he did a number of films in which he wasn't a criminal ("Picture Snatcher", "Winner Take All", "Here Comes the Navy") but none of these was really successful, so his non-crime dramas were interspersed with crime flicks and this is one of those examples. But nothing matched "Public Enemy", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Each Dawn I Die", and "The Roaring Twenties", at least until his magnificent performance in "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
The film is great for fans of Cagney or Blondell, but otherwise forgettable.
At this time in his career Cagney was having problems playing the tough guy killer, so he did a number of films in which he wasn't a criminal ("Picture Snatcher", "Winner Take All", "Here Comes the Navy") but none of these was really successful, so his non-crime dramas were interspersed with crime flicks and this is one of those examples. But nothing matched "Public Enemy", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Each Dawn I Die", and "The Roaring Twenties", at least until his magnificent performance in "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
The film is great for fans of Cagney or Blondell, but otherwise forgettable.