Picture Snatcher (1933)
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66% of users liked it
(196 ratings)
An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean, a former gangster who has decided to go straight after a stretch in the big house. Danny has fallen for Patricia (Patricia Ellis), the daughter of the cop who put him away… More An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean, a former gangster who has decided to go straight after a stretch in the big house. Danny has fallen for Patricia (Patricia Ellis), the daughter of the cop who put him away (Robert Emmett O'Connor). Dad isn't convinced that Danny has left his life of crime behind him, and he isn't too impressed with his new career taking pictures for a sleazy tabloid newspaper. Between getting a lurid photo of a fireman in front of a burning building (where his wife and her lover met their fate) and a daring shot of a woman being executed (based an actual incident when a New York Daily News photographer got a photo of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair), Danny's work is selling papers but hardly making Officer O'Connor think his daughter is in good hands (especially since he was in charge of press security for the execution). Short, sweet and sassy, Picture Snatcher is the sort of gutsy fare Warner Bros. did best in the 1930's; Ralph Bellamy turns in a great supporting performance as Danny's boozy editor. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Lloyd Bacon
- Written By
- Daniel Ahern, Allen Rivkin
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 6, 1933 Wide
Critic Reviews
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David Cornelius, DVDTalk.com
Like the best of these studio quickies, this one provides audiences with a little of everything, and the entertainment value is enormous.
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Cast
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James Cagney
as Danny Kean
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Ralph Bellamy
as McLean
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Patricia Ellis
as Patricia Nolan
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Alice White
as Allison
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Ralf Harolde
as Jerry
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George Pat Collins
as Hennessy the Fireman
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Robert E. O'Connor
as Casey Nolan
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Tom Wilson
as Leo
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Robert H. Barrat
as Grover
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Maurice Black
as Speakeasy proprietor
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Stanley Blystone
as Prison guard
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Don Brodie
as Hood
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Hobart Cavanaugh
as James Peters
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George Chandler
as Reporter
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Cora Sue Collins
as Little girl
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Gino Corrado
as Barber
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George Daly
as Machine gunner
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Jill Dennett
as Speakeasy girl
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Dick Elliott
as Editor
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Jack Grey
as Cop
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Sterling Holloway
as Journalism student
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John Ince
as Captain
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Selmar Jackson
as Record Editor
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Alice Jans
as Colleen
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Donald Kerr
as Mike Colleen's Boy Friend
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Milt Kibbee
as Reporter outside prison
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Bob Perry
as Bartender
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Barbara Rogers
as Olive
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Vaughan Taylor
as Editor
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Phil Tead
as Reporter Strange
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Arthur Vinton
as Head keeper
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Billy West
as Reporter
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Renee Whitney
as Connie
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Charles King
as Sick reporter
- G. Pat Collins
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
