'G' Men (1935)

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James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.  Director: William Keighley  Writer: Seton I. Miller, Darryl F. Zanuck  Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak

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00:001949 marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI as it exists today.

00:19Like many another success story, this one had humble beginnings.

00:23The first G-men worked under staggering disadvantages.

00:26I'm going to take you back to those days and show you a motion picture about a man named

00:31Brick Davis who was in the Bureau.

00:33It's the daddy of all FBI pictures.

00:36It's the first one that called us G-men.

00:56I heard something about you today, lawyer.

01:03Yes, Ed, what?

01:04You're going to be a big G-man.

01:06That's right.

01:07You ought to be dumped in a ditch, stool pigeon.

01:08Remember to keep your tin badge in Washington.

01:09If you come around here sticking your puss in our affairs, you'll get a belly full of this.

01:13Now beat it.

01:14Tell him I leave here with him at 7.15 tomorrow morning.

01:16I'll go to the station by car.

01:17I'll take the 7.40 train to Leavenworth and take a car from there to the prison.

01:21Tell him I'll be alone.

01:22And if he's looking for trouble, he can get it in any of those times or places.

01:26Hello, Brick?

01:27Gene?

01:28I found it.

01:29He's...

01:30Had it again, huh?

01:31Hold on fire!

01:32I've been waiting for this.

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