five year after she team up with james cagney in the public enemy and mae clarke make another appearance and this time a his fiancée with cagney character on the other side of the law . it seem like she be call more of the shot in their relationship a well and try to get johnny cave to be a little more practical with his money and his career . you have to figure they would get back together after she give him the boot for challenge her crooked bos while those thing have a way of work out in picture . i get a kick out of watch cagney in this one . i usually do and and here he look like he might have audition that characteristic shoulder shrug move that he use to good effect in angel with dirty face portray rocky sullivan . it be right after he throw cavanaugh ( robert gleckler ) out of his office during the first attempt at bribe the new weight and measure bos . he turn to the camera and hitch up a if entirely please with his response to the crook very cool . it my understand that this wasn not one of cagney warner film and but it might as well have be . warner often take up the cause for the common man and and the expose of crooked merchant and the politician who protect them would have be right up their alley . you also have those great new york city street scene depict car and shop of the era and with home make sign price flour at eighteen cent a pound . hey and how about the furniture store sell the living room set for a hundred eighty nine dollar and you might get a single stick chair for that price today . best part of the picture just might be that meat counter scene when cagney and james burke ( aloysius ) and the butcher play catch with an underweight chicken . one of the film lighter moment and but you get an idea how tense people can get when theyre catch cheat . same with the truck driver who pressure by johnny into sign for an accurate delivery while he just wasn not use to do that . all in all and a nice diversion from cagney more typical gangster presence and even if not up to the standard of his feature film . it easy enough to obtain a one of a handful of public domain cagney picture out there and and often find in relatively inexpensive compilation .