'G' Men
Short description
James "Brick" Davis is a lawyer whose education was paid for by a gangster, though he has kept his distance from the criminal world that surrounds him. When someone close to him is shot dead by a notorious criminal, Davis turns his back on his legal practice and joins the federal Department of Justice, hoping to bring the killer to justice and to settle his ties to his past.
William Keighley directed the film, which was released in 1935 and runs 83 minutes under the First National Pictures banner. Seton I. Miller wrote the screenplay, and James Cagney leads the cast as Davis, with Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane and Lloyd Nolan among the 61 credited performers.
The film sits at the start of Keighley's directing credits listed here, ahead of The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Rocky Mountain. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.1 from around 4,700 votes, while on TMDB it has a rating of 6.6 from 94 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Based on the novel 'Public Enemy No. 1' by Darryl F. Zanuck.
- 'G-Men' are actually FBI agents: 'G-men' stands for 'Government Men,' which, translated into Russian, means people serving the government.
- The film's script was read by Edgar J. Hoover, the then-director of the FBI, approved by him, and he personally took control of the film's production. At his direction, FBI agents advised the filmmakers on various "technical" and legal matters.
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