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Eleventh and final time that James Cagney co-starred with his close friend Frank McHugh, the first time being The Crowd Roars (1932).
James Cagney later would play Lon Chaney Jr.'s father Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957).
The film is based on a 1945 novel of the same title which was a fictionalized account of assassinated Louisiana politician Huey Long (1893-1935) by Adria Locke Langley. A film based on a similar subject, All the King's Men (1949), won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1949. That b/w film shot on location with non-professional extras had a gritty realism that this studio-bound movie did not have, and the latter film suffered by comparison.
The last film of William Cagney Productions.
James Cagney and William Cagney paid $250,000 in 1945 ($3.8M in 2021) for the film rights to the novel upon which this film is based.
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