Johnny Come Lately (1943) DVD9 Untouched - James Cagney, Marjori

Johnny Come Lately (1943) DVD9 Untouched - James Cagney, Marjorie Main [DDR]

Johnny Come Lately is a 1943 film starring James Cagney, Grace George and Edward McNamara. It was the first film produced by Cagney Productions in March 1943 .

CAST:-
James Cagney as Tom Richards
Grace George as Vinnie McLeod
Marjorie Main as Gashouse Mary
Marjorie Lord as Jane
Hattie McDaniel as Aida
Edward McNamara as Bill Dougherty
Bill Henry as Pete Dougherty
Robert Barrat as Bill Swain

Directed by William K. Howard
Produced by William Cagney Productions
Music by Leigh Harline
Running time 97 minutes


MOVIE PLOT:- Johnny Come Lately (1943)
In 1906, Tom Richards (James Cagney), a drifter, arrives in Plattsville and befriends newspaper proprietor Vinnie McLeod (Grace George), who is battling the corruption of the town's leading citizen Bill Dougherty (Edward McNamara). He takes over as managing editor of the Plattsville "Shield and Banner" and, despite initial resistance from the oppressed citizens, finally drives Dougherty out of town.

For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney plays itinerant newspaperman Tom Richards, who wanders into a small corruption-ridden town. Striking up a friendship with elderly Vinnie McLeod (Grace George in her only movie appearance), the editor of the local newspaper, Tom tries to help Vinnie exposed the community's crooked politicians. He is thwarted in his efforts until Gashouse Mary (Marjorie Main), a wealthy dowager with a shady past, exposes the machinations behind a phony Orphan's Fund. At the insistence of star Cagney, the cast of Johnny Come Lately was filled with familiar character actors (Hattie McDaniel, Edward McNamara, George Cleveland, Margaret Hamilton, Lucien Littlefield) who are herein offered a lot more screen time than was customary. Based on the Louis Bromfield novel McLeod's Folly, Johnny Come Lately was produced by Cagney's brother William; the film garnered an Oscar nomination for Leigh Harline's nostalgic musical score.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 6610 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 1
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 97 mins
Subtitles: NONE
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]