pDownload Movie G-Men [] Online or Start Watchp br pFor download click here : b bp br pThere comes a time in the career of every gangster star when he has to go straight. Jimmy Cagney did it in i"G" Meni, a crisp crimefighting drama directed by William Keighley. Its hero is one more Cagney variation on the workingclass guy with a smart mouth and a hard right, only this time he's a lawyer whose education was paid for by the avuncular local crimelord. Cagney's on the square, though, and after a lawschool pal turned F.B.I. agent is murdered in the line of duty, he joins the Bureau. Made with the blessings of J. Edgar Hoover, the movie pays homage to several spectacular moments in Bureau legend, but it's at its grabbiest when things get personal for Cagneysay, the complications that arise from his onetime sortagirlfriend, nightclub chanteuse Ann Dvorak, taking up with very bad dude Barton MacLane. p Film critic Manny Farber praised Keighley as "the least sentimental director of gangster careers," and he gives the numerous murders and shootouts a jolting ferocity. (Thirteen years later Keighley helmed the excellent F.B.I. case history iStreet With No Namei.) The Idon'tlikeyouandIdon'ttrustyou byplay between Cagney and his Bureau boss Robert Armstrong gets old, but there's flavorful thuggery from MacLane, Edward Pawley, Noel Madison, et al. i"G" Meni's style is briskly nononsense, yet so beautifully has the film been restored and digitally remastered, there are moments when Sol Polito's cinematography literally glows. One gripe only: The movie should have been presented as it was in 1935, iwithouti the F.B.I.classroom intro tacked on for 1949 reissue (the sort of thing "Special Features" was made for). iRichard T. Jamesonibr br br GMen, a punchy rippedfromtheheadlines account of the pursuit and capture of John Dillinger provides the story inspiration as Cagney, one of the screen's archetypal bad guys, gives it to 'em good in a caper that's "fast, funny, as simplistic and powerful as a tabloid headline" (Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide). "G" Men builds to a fury of bold escapes, sirenwailing pursuits and frenzied shootouts.