“Each Dawn I Die” is a Crime Drama, screenplay by Norman Reilly and Raine Warren Duff, from a Novel by Jerome Odlum and Directed by William Keighley.
In this prison classic, a top-notch newspaper
reporter Frank Ross (James Cagney) angers a corrupt District Attorney with
political ambitions, and with Ross’s news stories implicating him in criminal
activity he decides to frame Ross for manslaughter in order to silence him.
“Angels with Dirty Faces” is a Crime Drama, screenplay by John Wexley and Warren Duff, from a story by Rowland Brown and Directed by Michael Curtiz.
It’s the story of two boyhood friends, Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and
Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) who were running from the police one night when
Rocky was caught.
After he was arrested, he went into the prison system and became a
lifelong criminal, while Jerry went straight and became a Catholic Priest and
ministered to people in the same neighbourhood where he and Rocky grew up.
When Rocky is released from prison after his latest term, he resumes his
criminal lifestyle and is hero worshipped by many of the local kids.
Jerry is worried that the kids will follow Rocky down the wrong path
into the criminal world and works hard to keep them on the straight and narrow.
But no matter what he says he can’t get through to them, even after
Rocky is convicted of murder and sentenced to the electric chair, so Jerry
visits him on death row and asks him for one last favour.
A classic of the genre, with extraordinary acting by James Cagney, ably
complimented by Pat O'Brien as his friend, Humphrey Bogart who is the perfect
actor as the arch villain, and the radiant Ann Sheridan adds a feminine touch.
“The Spirit of St. Louis” is a biographical drama, based on the book by Charles A. Lindbergh adapted by Charles Lederer and Directed by Billy Wilder.
The film is a Biography of Charles “Slim” Lindburgh’s life, covering the
period from his days on the precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy with his
friend Bud Gurney (Murray Hamilton) to his solo transatlantic crossing from Roosevelt
Field on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Airport in Paris.
But he was more than a pilot because Charles Augustus 'Slim'
Lindbergh (James Stewart) co-financed the Spirit of St. Louis, a fabric-covered,
single-seat, single-engine “Ryan NYP” high-wing monoplane which he jointly
designed with Ryan's chief engineer Donald A. Hall (Arthur
Space).
But the drama of the story comes once he is
airborne and alone in the empty skies with only the open ocean below him.
If flying is so safe
So
safe you’re invulnerable
Why
do they call?
I have often wondered I don’t know why
When
a plane has fallen from the sky
And
only the black box has survived
Why
have the makers have never tried
To
build a plane from the same stuff
As
the black box because it’s so tough
The nightmare that keeps me up at nights
Is
about oxygen masks on airline flights
They
don’t contain any oxygen it seems
