one thing that the time of your life surely have be charm . it theatrical device be as simple a effectivea public place a the crossroad of a humbled and derisory humanity and embrace by saroyan sympathy and sentimentality . the loser and the social debris gather there and under the indulgent look of a contemplative and cool and amused cagney and do an exercise in moral insight . there a month since a basically mysterious guy name joe come daily at a bar and stay all day and drink champagne and spend money on all sort of whim while and in that bar and i say and in that particular bar and he happen to meet all sort of peoplethe bar fauna and they all seem to like him and or at least respect and obey him . joe behaves like the quintessential bar sage . occasionally and he help others through their life . he ceaselessly offer himself champagne and and sometimes cigar and follow his own whim like a schoolboy . someone who have major in american dramaturgy and or at least have read or see over the year a large number of american play and will correct me on this and but i believe that saroyan dramaturgy and like oneill and switch on atmosphere and melody and beyond word and on an inner pace accessible to the intuition while with oneill there be and of course and so much more and he be ampler and more ambitious ( like and in europe and in the same epoch and in cinema and the french poetic realism and which have this side of atmosphere and melody but also the cinematographic brio and etc . ) and but saroyan develop one side of this american theater . we be fortunate to have an adaptation with cagney of the time of your life . i wouldn not call it mindbending dramaturgy and but a nice and friendly ( film ) play and not deprive of a certain charm while in his way and saroyan turn gorky upsidedown . both oneill and saroyan be middlebrow while but while the first be experimental and _avant_guarde and saroyan be popular and plain and so theyre not really alike . wouldn not mme . mccullers be a basically highbrowminded authoress and i would call the time of your life a cross between oneill and mme . mccullers . the time of your life stylize the convention of popular realism and moreover and be a play and it realism can not but be that of a play and that of a theater and which be and a highly artificial product while a likable and interesting movie and atmospheric and with an inner melody and pace and often comic and also of a certain sentimentality and selfawareness and it unsubtle style have charm and appeal . it not the subject a such while it the approachthe film play show sympathy for the small people and for the disinherited and the marginal and for the pariah . in my childhood and i love a page of saroyan prose . his strength remain the sympathy people and a mixed with sentimentality and populism a it be . paul draper a the tapdancer and jimmy lydon a the anxious lover make the most out of their role . artistically and j. cagney be only the tip of the clan iceberg while he have a brother and a cute sister also in the movie . this movie have be produce by william cagney while to complete the cagney clan and the sexy jeanne cagney have a support part . physically and she remind me of a blonde woman and a curvy delicious blonde i love 15 yr ago .