Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1949 — Page 32

In Hollywood— "The Great Gatsby A a Punctuated With Love And Violence + i Plays Gangster | aos Set To End Crime

Cagney Hopes He Can Teach A Good Lesson to Public

By “James Cagney

(For Erskine Johnson, whe is on vacation)

NEW Yi

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20—Eleven years ago I nade od keep hep by last gangster picture, “Angels With Dirty Faces.” When opera” is jus the last gun had been fired, the final. fist thrown, and the But the

law had accomplished its inevitable purpose, I half prom-§ ised myself that that would be the end of my career as al} hoodlum on the screen. We had started of the eyge with ; x “Public Enemy,” made by au »

| es TI ciated with | | brad Er pn refer. 1

| X HAD tried to accomplish this ~ wis Qrogn Wop and plain ol¢ Warner Brothers in 1830. Al-),," 4ooiving one of the oldest JC Fu" T8 Very few | though in subsequent years I'axioms of show business, “If you, “Kasan” of 2:43, 0:00 snd 0:8 guess, for e had made more comedies, fmorel laugh a nem, you Sam t hate T A : Lyme : Patrice Munse ice fil a musical e ar-| To : eSungd osha RE 4-year-o rpectivery: than Sore stories 1 acter I trigd to bring in some bit| Based on y the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, “The Gre The war, over, Ga ch returns to discover that As part of Gatsby's Ay d he turns the hug hse house Tanks Bute, 4m ’ who felt ‘that I was being identified Of humor by Injecting ditferent| Gatsby” will open at the Indiana Theater Wad d Daisy has mirried a polo player, Feeling that into one continuous pa a ani by hee oe kt ma with Vietor Me- $120,000 threetoo closely with those tough guy mame, pth Logout] day.” Young Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) nbiths in, ord he can win back Daisy through money, he turns boot- woman-chasing hobind, oe ry ivan), hy ea ©. she was 18, ac roles. lelicit a laugh here snd there. | War | while in love with Daisy (Betty Fi Pray, ,. logger. With his Ari riches, he buys a mansion one of the fis ua iin ant, b Joey roaies = — dramatic peak ix Too, my consclence had be- |= ow, after 11 years and the | Young and immature socialite. When Daj "demands ~~ adjacent to Daisy's home. Two of his underworld that his ves Gatsby. He Wi y oy ant 8 A Cit n gun to bother me. X began to | 0 TOLLE yselt 1 am | an immediate wedding, Gatsby puts her off. henchmen (Elisha Cook Jr. and Ed Begley) guard him. secret affair with MyeHle Wilson (Shelley Winters %e ke CP ea wonder If I had been entirely again playing a gangster role, . ls pr 4 : kisser?” I ask success ful in accomplishing | after having turned down Iit- | SA fly flew what I had hoped to accom- | erally dozens of them submitted | Mjss Munsel 1 t ver that period of years “He stayed pilsh. by playing. oveasional | 0 gosh wgol gl or 5. and | mouth wiitle ]

hoodlum roles. every agent in the Industry.

I had wanted them, and so) i ' I am Cody Jarrett, A complex- | De aor hia LS ETOWI-Up mother’s boy and "th vd truth nforg 1 Y| psychosomatic killer in Warner| s 8ge-0 ph Crime |p others’ “White Heat,” with Vir-| + doesn’t pay; that the. Wrong ..... mayo as my unfaithful wife social environment and Fi land Edmond O'Brien as a U. 8. pivber aoe foster crime; ny, gry agent, out to get me at! and opportunities for poisonous all costs, the cost eventually béing’ contacts should '¥emehow be, my Hite,

Selet that Since the picture started 1 I pines Hid the ey. : have . been asked many times, |

“How does it feel to be back | in a gangster role?” My reply KEITH'S a has been unvaried. I'm glad to’ be playing this particular hood 1 lum primarily because he's one of the most challenging and interesting characters of ‘his sort § that has ever been writteit- in a i screen play. iB ' . on I i MARK this additional reason why I changed my mind. No one * {who will see this picture will ever forget this important point. In modern times the methods and ] 2. ; i 4 the motives of the criminal ele-| ; ment have never changed, but Gatsby persuades Daisy fo run away with him, but Tom dis- Gatsby leaves Daisy at her home, toll her Myrtle sees the car Daisy is driving Spprcact=the methods of the criminologist,! covers the plot. He suggests they all drive fo town and talk over that he will take the rap by claiming he was ing her husband's roadside garage. She thinks | tn Zim ~|the police, the G-men and the yo. ooblems, Tom furiously denounces Gatsby and fells Daisy driving. Later, Gatsby eavesdrops and learns that it is Tom's, breaks away from her husband (How- | Pk oe. Pt ek Sc Treasury agents certainly have, of all Gatsby's past underworld exploits. Daisy, still in love with Daisy no longer loves him. Hi goes home in dis- ard Da Silva), with whom she has quarreled, runs ito GHEY NUH = 4h Coan om For vhoss reasons, as I've | oc yb [00 es with him. Tom follows in another car. The two cars gust. The next morning, Wilson comes to Tom's info the road to hail it. The car strikes her, kills | | sald: X¥ am not slated t-having | are identical yellow convertibles. Disgusted with her husband, home stalking his wife's murderer. Tom convinces her. Tom arrives in his car a few moments later

| returned hy. to be. Banster rol) | Daisy drives at a high rate of a him Gatsby did it. Wilson shoots Gatsby. and learns of the accident. \ . f

gster role.’ It Is the bes T8700 1 | r

thing of its sort I have ever | read. | THE 2 MIGHTIEST | | ADVENTURE-THRILLERS} | EVER ON | SCREEN!

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