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Jimmy the Gent is a american film of genre Drama directed by Michael Curtiz released in USA on 17 march 1934 with James Cagney

Jimmy the Gent (1934)

Jimmy the Gent
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Released in USA 17 march 1934
Length 1h7
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Crime,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2962553.2962553.2962553.2962553.296255

Jimmy the Gent is a 1934 American comedy-crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney and Bette Davis. It was the first pairing of Cagney and Davis, who would reunite for The Bride Came C.O.D. seven years later.

The screenplay by Bertram Millhauser was based on The Heir Chaser by Ray Nazarro and Laird Doyle.

Synopsis

The unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney), runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will, and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin (Bette Davis), who left him to due his lack of ethics, accepts a position at the allegedly legitimate firm owned by Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart), Corrigan investigates Wallingham's background and discovers his rival is even more duplicitous than he is. He exposes Wallingham as a phony and promises to go straight if Joan will come back to him.

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