Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Benedito Dias Rodrigues A great noir spoiled by a naive guy,Cagney produced a movie as vehicle to him,nevertheless the time is over to play a young characters, both women Barbara Payton and Helena Carter are twenty years younger,a lack of credibility for James Cagney, he actually is an older actor who don't fill the real Ralph Cotter,he shall be their father indeed,in other hand Ward Bond and Lutler adler are flawless a highlights to the picture,Barbara Payton plays a propper bombshell,later lost your life in wrong behavior and became alcooholic,a priceless lost!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8

Tweekums This gangster movie opens in a court room where seven people including two police officers, a lawyer and a prison officer are on trial for murder or being accessories to murder; the prosecuting attorney explains that really there should be eight people on trial but the worst of the bunch isn't there. We then flash back to when the story really starts; with the Eighth Man, Ralph Cotter, in a prison farm. He isn't there long though; he escapes and is picked up by the sister of a man he was meant to escape with; she doesn't know it but he killed her brother during the escape.Once away from the prison he doesn't lay low, he robs a store, savagely beating the manager in the process. It looks like he will be quickly caught when the police turn up but it turns out they are as corrupt as he is. They take his cut of the proceeds and tell him to get out of town. He has other ideas and sets about blackmailing them by recording second meeting where he outlines another robbery. He sends one copy of the recording to his brother and plays another to the police; now it seems he can work with impunity so long as the cops get their cut. Things are complicated though as he gets involved with two women; the blonde who helped him get away from prison and a brunette who is the daughter of a wealthy and powerful man… she could be his salvation if he doesn't cross the wrong people.This less well known James Cagney film isn't up to the standards of his better known works like 'White Heat' and 'The Public Enemy' but it is still fairly entertaining. Cagney himself puts in a solid performance as Cotter; the sort of character he has played many times before. Barbara Payton was good enough as blonde Holiday Carleton and Helena Carter was delightful as brunette Margaret Dobson. The rest of the cast were pretty solid. The story was gripping even though anybody familiar with this sort of film will have guessed Cagney's fate long before it happens. For the most part I thought the film had aged well although the scene where Cagney and Helena Carter are shown in separate beds on their wedding night seemed rather silly… if rules of the time forbade them from sharing a bed on screen it would have been better to not show them in bed! Overall I'd say that while this might not be a classic fans of films of this era and particularly fans of Cagney are likely to enjoy it.

roslein-674-874556 A confusing script (which begins in a very plodding, lecturing way, with a prosecuting attorney's speech at a trial) is only one of this film's problems. The low budget shows in the cast of mostly untalented and unattractive performers who are not helped by the utter lack of conviction about this movie. The story makes no sense--Cagney has all sorts of plots going on, which conflict with one another, and relations with two women, toward both of whom he seems to have no very strong feelings. The movie code regulations make it ridiculous for the sexy gangster Cagney is supposed to be, but believable for this phlegmatic con man, that on his wedding night he and his wife are in separate beds and he's wearing pajamas! It's also the sort of movie in which Cagney, who was 50 at the time, and looks and moves accordingly, is addressed as "young man." Fitfully interesting, but only if you don't expect much.

Spikeopath Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is directed by Gordon Douglas and adapted to screenplay by Harry Brown from the novel by Horace McCoy. It stars James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler and Steve Brodie. Music is by Carmen Dragon and photography by J. Peverell Marley. Ralph Cotter (Cagney), career criminal, escapes from prison and crudely murders his partner during the escape. Hooking up with Holiday Carleton (Payton), the oblivious sister of the slain partner, Cotter quickly gets back into a life of crime and violence. But will his evil deed stay a secret? How long can he keep the corrupt coppers under wraps? And is his "other" romantic relationship with Margaret Dobson (Carter) doomed to failure? ……Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, it seems to have been lost in the slipstream of White Heat that was released the previous year. An undoubted classic of the gangster/crime genre, and featuring one of Cagney's greatest acting performances, White Heat has unsurprisingly dwarfed many a poor genre entry. However, while it doesn't equal the searing ferocity of White Heat, both in tone and character performance by Cagney, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a seriously hard movie. Energetic from the off, film is often brutal and cynical and awash with potently memorable scenes, with some deemed as being too much, resulting in the film being banned from theatres in Ohio! Female or a cripple, it matters not to the menacing force of nature that is Ralph Cotter. Gordon Douglas was a multi genre director, unfussy and able to keep things taut, he gets some super performances from the cast while never letting the pace drag. Cagney is a given, give him this sort of character and let him run with it, in fact it is arguably a detriment to the film as a whole, that it can't match Cagney's blood and thunder show? But Bond (big bad corrupt copper), Brodie (Cotter side-kick) and Adler (shifty lawyer) do shine through with imposing turns. Of much interest is the dual lady characters in Cotter's life. Both very different from each other, this gives the film a double whammy of femme fatales in waiting. Payton takes the honours, in what is the best written part in the film. Her Holiday Carleton is a good girl drawn in to a murky life by a bad man, while Carter as bored rich girl Margaret Dobson is the polar opposite, she likes fast cars and dangerous men, allowing the actress to deftly sidle in with impact in the smaller role. Photography isn't out of the ordinary, and the music is standard boom and bluster for a crime picture. But this is about Cagney's performance and the grim thematics contained within, and much like Ralph Cotter, it doesn't pull its punches. Finally sealing the deal with an ending that firmly pulls the movie into the film noir universe. 8/10