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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.
Cagney's corniness never really worked on-screen--the "goodies" were drowned out by windy speeches--but when he turned it upside down in White Heat , his great 1949 comeback to the gangster genre, he was unmatched as a ruthless pervert.
It wasn't enough to have the de rigeur mention of James Cagney grapefruiting Mae Clark.
A couple of times during this period, he'd test-screen a film, the audience would object to the new passive Cagney, and he'd have to shoot a new ending in which he went crazy and punched someone out.
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.