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Cagney riffed on this hard-boiled persona for about a decade, most harrowingly in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), playing Rocky Sullivan, a killer who freaks out just as he's about to go to the electric chair.
In fact, it's the older gangster pictures that romanticize the charismatic crooks portrayed by Bogart, Cagney, Robinson, et al.
Highlight is a musical number set in the tenement basement where Cagney dances and screams, "Top of the girl, Ma!"
Few people know Cagney's performances as intimately as they know the high points of the performances of Humphrey Bogart or Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant.
Cagney's slow fade is especially surprising when you consider how much the genre he helped to invent, the gangster film, thrives.