Jimmy the Gent
Jimmy the Gent is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy-crime film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney and Bette Davis and featuring Allen Jenkins. It was the first pairing of Cagney and Davis, who would reunite for The Bride Came C.O.D. seven years later.
Plot
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 because of 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.
More details
| author | Ray Nazarro |
|---|---|
| director | Michael Curtiz |
| editor | Thomas Richards |
| genre | comedy-drama crime |
| keywords | ethic heir inheritance will |
| musicBy | Bernhard Kaun |
| producer | Robert Lord |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |