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Smart Money (Film Notes)Smart MoneyDirected byAlfred E. GreenStarringEdward G. RobinsonJames CagneyCinematographyRobert KurrieEditing byJack KilliferDistributed byWarner BrothersRelease date(s)1931Running time81 min.Country?United StatesLanguageEnglishSmart Money (1931) is a film starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, the only time Robinson and Cagney made a movie together, despite being the two leading gangster actors at Warner Brothers studios all through the 1930s.Smart Money was shot after Robinson's signature film Little Caesar had been released and while Cagney's breakthrough film The Public Enemy was also being filmed. The Public Enemy had not been released and so Smart Money is the only film in which Cagney played the kind of supporting role usually portrayed by Humphrey Bogart later in the '30s.PlotA barber (Robinson) who goes to the big city to become a gambler finds himself rooked by a blonde and a gang of thugs. He vows to take revenge with the help of his own henchman (Cagney).ProductionThe movie was directed by Alfred E. Green and released by Warner Brothers. Boris Karloff, not yet the icon he would soon become following his performance in Frankenstein that same year, has a brief role early in this film.Margaret Livingston, who plays the District Attorney's girlfriend, portrayed the "Woman from the City" in F. W. Murnau's film Sunrise (1927).A gentle-spirited film, Smart Money features some intriguing Cagney sequences, particularly a pre-Code pantomime of cunnilingus unthinkable during the subsequent Hayes Code, and critics noted how well Robinson and Cagney played off each other, but this was their only screen pairing.Cast (in credits order)Edward G. Robinson as Nick 'The Barber' Venizelos James Cagney as Jack Evalyn Knapp as Irene Graham Ralf Harolde as Sleepy Sam (mistaken for Hickory Short) Noel Francis as Marie (Sleepy Sam's Girl) Margaret Livingston as District Attorney's Girl Maurice Black as Greek Barber Billy House as Irontown Salesman-Gambler Paul Porcasi as Alexander Amenoppopolus Gladys Lloyd as Second Cigar Stand Clerk Polly Walters as Lola Boris Karloff as Sport Williams (uncredited) Films directed by Alfred E. Green1920sThrough the Back Door (1921) · Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) · The Ghost Breaker (1922) · In Hollywood With Potash and Perlmutter (1924) · Irene (1926) · Ella Cinders (1926) · Disraeli (1929) 1930sThe Green Goddess (1930) · The Man From Blankley's (1930) · Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930) · Men of the Sky (1931) · Smart Money (1931) · Union Depot (1932) · Silver Dollar (1932) · The Rich Are Always With Us (1932) · The Dark Horse (1932) · Parachute Jumper (1933) · Baby Face (1933) · Central Airport (uncredited) · I Loved a Woman (1933) · Housewife (1934) · A Lost Lady (1934) · Gentlemen Are Born (1934) · The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935) · Dangerous (1935) · Colleen (1936) · The Golden Arrow (1936) · Two in a Crowd (1936) · More Than a Secretary (1936) · The League of Frightened Men (1937) · Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) · Let's Get Married (1937) · The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939) 1940sFlowing Gold (1940) · The Mayor of 44th Street (1942) · Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) · A Thousand and One Nights (1945) · The Jolson Story (1946) · The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) · Copacabana (1947) · Four Faces West (1948) · Cover Up (1949) 1950sThe Jackie Robinson Story (1950) · Two Gals and a Guy (1951) · Invasion U.S.A. (1952) · Top Banana (1954) ................
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