Seeing Blondell and Cagney on screen for the first time makes it worthwhile

textbook example of a snappy pre-Code film

Dim melodrama with two awful leads; the second leads steal the show

Seminal early sound, pre-code film, Cagneys first movie

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

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James Cagney and Lucille La Verne in Sinners' Holiday (1930)

James Cagney and Joan Blondell in Sinners' Holiday (1930)

Lucille La Verne in Sinners' Holiday (1930)

Grant Withers

Evalyn Knapp

James Cagney

Marie Baumer

Harvey F. Thew

George Rosener

Ma Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story involves rum-running, accidental murder, and...

John G. Adolfi

Sinners&apos; Holiday

&quot;You haven&apos;t a rubber band in your pocket, have you?&quot;

Middling Pre-Coder that&apos;s notable for being the film debuts of James Cagney and Joan Blondell (with her natural hair color, no less). The plot&apos;s about a family that runs a waterfront penny arcade and the trouble the youngest son (Cagney) gets into, including bootlegging and killing a guy. One for Cagney fans to check off their list but it&apos;s really not that great. The characters are all pretty unlikable and Jimmy shows little of that trademark charm &amp; swagger in the role of a sniveling punk. Public Enemy would play to his strengths much better and, of course, make him a star. Lucille La Verne plays Cagney&apos;s mom and she hams it up in every scene. Grant Withers is pretty good as the ne&apos;er-do-well turned good by the love of a woman. That woman being lovely Evalyn Knapp. She was my favorite part of the whole picture. The scene with her and Withers under the pier is probably the film&apos;s highlight. It&apos;s an early talkie so it creaks and groans but at least it doesn&apos;t seem like a filmed stage play, so points for that. Still, after it&apos;s over, you won&apos;t be in any hurry to tell your friends about it.

"You haven't a rubber band in your pocket, have you?"

Middling Pre-Coder that's notable for being the film debuts of James Cagney and Joan Blondell (with her natural hair color, no less). The plot's about a family that runs a waterfront penny arcade and the trouble the youngest son (Cagney) gets into, including bootlegging and killing a guy. One for Cagney fans to check off their list but it's really not that great. The characters are all pretty unlikable and Jimmy shows little of that trademark charm & swagger in the role of a sniveling punk. Public Enemy would play to his strengths much better and, of course, make him a star. Lucille La Verne plays Cagney's mom and she hams it up in every scene. Grant Withers is pretty good as the ne'er-do-well turned good by the love of a woman. That woman being lovely Evalyn Knapp. She was my favorite part of the whole picture. The scene with her and Withers under the pier is probably the film's highlight. It's an early talkie so it creaks and groans but at least it doesn't seem like a filmed stage play, so points for that. Still, after it's over, you won't be in any hurry to tell your friends about it.

Ma Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story involves rum-running, accidental murder, and a frame-up.

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