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In fact, it's the older gangster pictures that romanticize the charismatic crooks portrayed by Bogart, Cagney, Robinson, et al.
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.
These days, Cagney's image tends to flicker: He's that tough guy who talks so fast you can hardly hear the words, and who, at the end of his films, gets killed.
It wasn't enough to have the de rigeur mention of James Cagney grapefruiting Mae Clark.
So, in 1942, Cagney became one of the first stars to start his own production company.