The sixth Kennington Talkies event is a James Cagney double bill.

Taxi! (1932) 69 mins

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Screenplay: Kenyon Nicholson (from his play), Kubec Glasmon and John Bright
Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone, Guy Kibbee

Independent cab drivers struggling against a taxi consortium find a leader in Matt Nolan (Cagney). The film includes two famous Cagney dialogues, one featuring Cagney holding a conversation with a passenger in Yiddish, the other having Cagney speaking to his brother’s killer through a locked closet door. The prominence of this sequence led to Cagney being famously misquoted (to this day) as saying, “You dirty rat, you killed my brother.”

Picture Snatcher (1933) 77 mins

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Screenplay: Daniel Ahern (story), Allen Rivkin, P.J. Wolfson, Ben Markson and (uncredited) William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis

On leaving prison and having no desire to return, gangster Danny Kean (James Cagney) shocks his cohorts by quitting crime to pursue his dream of becoming a newspaper reporter. A fast, funny, exciting film based on the true story of a daring photographer.

Doors open at 18.30, for a 19.30 start.

Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.

TICKETS & PRICING

Tickets £6.

Advance tickets may be purchased from Billetto, or direct from the Museum by calling 020 7840 2200 in office hours.