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Or compare Cagney with fellow macho icon John Wayne: The punk gangster's stock has fallen, while the silent cowboy's keeps on rising.
What Americans do recall about Cagney they're likely to have picked up from imitators (including, of all people, Sammy Davis Jr.), who loved to mimic his nasal, rapid-fire delivery, and to re-enact that moment at the end of his films when he gets plugged with what seems like 300 bullets and reels theatrically for 12 minutes before dropping dead.
Like Cagney, he has a dancer's grace.
But Cage's eruptions look narcissistic next to Cagney's: When he snaps, he's not responding to other people in a scene, he's hearing voices in his head.
The search for a modern Cagney is a vain one--nobody could compare to him.