CommentsXp Best movie ever!

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

alexanderdavies-99382 "Blonde Crazy" was one of the first films James Cagney made after becoming a big star. The plot is pretty straightforward but Cagney and Joan Blondell push this film well above being average with their on-screen chemistry. They play a couple of hustlers who circulate amongst the more wealthy clientèle in various hotels. At one stage, both the leads are on the receiving end of a notorious card shark who steals their ill gotten gains. The way Cagney and Blondell exact their revenge is brilliant! Things get a bit more complicated between the two leads in the latter half of the film. Very entertaining.

dougdoepke Blondell is the perfect match for Cagney. Both are brim-full of personality and feisty grit. Here they're sort of on-again off-again sweeties; that is, when Bert's (Cagney) not working a clever moneymaking scheme. Yes, it's the 30's favorite rags to riches guy working his way up from bellhop to globe trotter. Of course, in true Cagney style, he makes it by ignoring technicalities like the law. But don't expect tommy-guns blasting away. Instead, Bert's an up-and-coming con-man who both scams and gets scammed. I count at least four con-man schemes and maybe more, so you may need a scorecard. But they're clever and hard to see coming. Of course, cheating Cagney's like playing with fire, so someone should tell Louis Calhern (Barker) before he gets burned. And get a load of Calhern's aristocratic nose—I'd love to see him and the equally endowed Basil Rathbone in a scene together. Plus, there're all those colorful old flivvers rolling down the street, which is one reason I like these cinema antiques. Also, I was wondering whether Barker was going to put on Ann's panties or just admire them. And what about his inspecting that brassiere where Ann keeps her valuables. Then again, this is pre-Code 1931. But catch that ending that's a puzzler given the questions left hanging.Anyway, with its typical 30's bundle of energy, Warner Bros. again shows why it was the studio of record, and why Cagney remains truly trans-generational.

mark.waltz The wide eyed Joan Blondell was one busy actress in the early thirty's, making sometimes a dozen films a year. Playing opposite James Cagney whom she had come from Broadway with to make her film debut in his first film as well, Blondell truly epitomizes the Depression era jazz baby, pre-code leading lady. Even playing gold diggers, she always had a huge heart of gold beneath the surface, and ultimately her characters are always looking for true love even though they had their eyes set on expensive purse strings. She plays a maid in a fancy hotel, and becomes involved in Cagney's schemes of getting rich quickly, but as those games continue to blow up in his face, she wises up to him, and sets her sights elsewhere. But in the course of true love, he does finally learn some common sense, and begins to see the cute Blondell as more than just an easy mark for his lecherous moves.If the lost film "Convention City" is any indication of why the code came in, then the earlier made "Blonde Crazy" is definitely one of the films that led the Catholic legion of decency to create such a movement in making films less scandalous. There is a famous shot of Blondell in thus film seemingly naked in a bathtub with Cagney coming in, looking for her money, to which she tells him that it in her underwear. Cagney goes outside and begins fondling her bra and panties, and seemingly having way too much of a good time. Guy Kibbee, playing a lecherous customer, also makes unwanted advances at her, and her responses to his pass are nothing short of genius. Blondell was an actress way ahead of her time, and up there with Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers and Jean Harlow comes off as someone that any guy would not only want to have as his pal, but ultimately hope to settle down with as well. Maude Eburne is very funny as Blondell's boss, with veteran character actor Charles Lane in one of his first films, playing the type of grouchy curmudgeon that would make him a fan favorite for almost the next 70 years. The plot line goes a bit astray with the Louis Calhern character as the film goes on, but the sassy script never lets up and with great leads and an early appearance by Ray Milland, this is one pre-code film that is definitely worth catching.

David Atfield This film is great - very under-rated. Cagney really fires - and he hasn't yet developed all his famous mannerisms so he is very different to what you may expect. Blondell is certainly his match - and this movie is very very naughty! Don't miss it!