Winner Take All (1932)
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Synopsis of Winner Take All
James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's fans finance the boxer's regenerative stay at a New Mexico health resort. For the sake of pretty, poverty-stricken Marian Nixon, Cagney enters into a return bout. He splits his winnings with Nixon, then goes back to his old skirt-chasing pattern with fickle society girl Virginia Bruce. Having had his nose broken, Cagney fixes it up to please Bruce, and stops taking chances in the ring lest his beezer get smashed again. It doesn't take long for Cagney to plummet from popularity, but true-blue Nixon is there for him when he gets wise to himself. The beautifully staged fight scenes in Winner Take All, wherein James Cagney disdains the use of a double, were later excerpted in Cagney's last-ever film, 1985's Terrible Joe Moran. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Winner Take All
- James Cagney - Jim Kane
- Guy Kibbee - Pop Slavin
- Virginia Bruce - Joan Gibson
- Charles Coleman - Butler
- Ralf Harolde - Legs Davis
- Esther Howard - Ann
- Lee Phelps - Ring Announcer for Championship Bout
- John Kelly - Boxing Spectator
- Renee Whitney - Lois
- Phil Tead - Reporter
- John Roche - Roger Elliott
- Harvey Perry - Al West
- Selmar Jackson - Ring announcer
- Chris-Pin Martin - Manager
- Marian Nixon - Peggy Harmon
- Clarence Muse - Rosebud, the Trainer
- Dickie Moore - Dickie Harmon
- Jay Eaton - Society man
- George "Gabby" Hayes - Intern
- Bob Perry - Tijuana referee
- Julian Rivero - Pice
- Clarence H. Wilson - Ben Isaacs
- Billy West - Second
- Rolfe Sedan - Waiter
- George Raft - Bandleader
- Alan Mowbray - Forbes
- Allan Lane - Monty
- Charlotte Merriam - Blonde
- Director(s):
- Roy Del Ruth
- Writer(s):
- Wilson Mizner, Robert Lord
- Producer(s):
- Roy Del Ruth
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