i have see just about everything there be to see in the world of cinema . i have see rouben mamoulian and 68years ago and create the definitive monster movie and i have see pekinpah wild bunch go out in slo mo glory and i have see chow yun fat bleed his way through two hour and i have see cagney go out in a white heat at the top of the world and i have see belafonte lay odds against tomorrow . i have honestly think i have run out of surprise and i have see everything worth see . i be wrong . i pick up and pretty much because of review i read here and this movie kiss tomorrow goodbye . a little nothing and throwaway flick and that be do on the heel of cagney wildly popular white heat and and be pretty much ignore upon release . it say cagney dislike the idea of do another gangster picture . thank goodness he decide to do it anyway and because this movie . out and out floor me . it hard to call a movie from 50years ago brutal and and justify it . however that just what this movie be and deep in the bone and teeth rattling and brutal . in a world of scorcese and coppola gangster riff and hong kong cinema and slasher movie and and the nightly news it hard to account for this movie impact . there nothing tangible in this movie and in a world of shock cinema and that one could call shock . but yet . this movie have power and and energy and and yes a sense of brutality that blow away any dozen modern movie full of blood and or body part . this movie appeal be difficult to explain and but i guess if you have to sum it up in three word and it would be cagney . cagney . cagney . today movie for all their cgi brilliance lack the type of center and and and if you like and romanticism that actor like cagney and bogart and raft and and director like raoul walsh and and in this case gordon douglas and bring to the table . particularly in the hard boil flick and a menace that be somehow felt and rather than see and and therefore more powerful . i could go on and but all you need to know be that this movie in a world that have forget it and outgrow it and outbled it and be the fine of it breed . good than those that come before and superior to those that come after . it be the quintessential gangster pic . high recommendation . p. s. and i have to mention and i think the courtroom scene be well do and necessary and and everyone turn in great performance and especially the beautiful holiday carleton a barbara payton and who become cagney reluctant partner in crime . cagney turn in his most ferocious and seductive performance and be match by holiday . her tension and and wild lilt ferocity and fear and burning through the movie like a fuse and until it explode . mesmerize . a must see movie .