Don Cardi, ya beat me to it with Man of 1000 Faces!
One of my (many) favorite Cagney films. I first saw it on TV when CBS aired it for the first time in the NYC area sometime around 1968. (Remember The Late Show? The Late Late Show? The Late Late Show II? Award Theater? Heheheheh... I'm showing my age.)
Not very historically accurate, Cagney was way too old for the role, the re-created Lon Chaney makeups bore little resemblance to the originals, the script was pure 1950's soap opera, and yet...
...I still think it's a great film and much of that is because of Cagney.
Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
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