Based on a novel by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers James Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, who gets things started by violently busting out of jail, then murdering his partner in crime. Seeking out female companionship, he “courts” his ex-partner’s sister Holiday (Barbara Payton) by beating her black and blue. After committing a robbery, he is approached by two crooked cops who want a piece of the action. Blackmailing the cops, Cotter gains control of the situation. Is there any way to stop this fascinating creep? Filmgoers in Ohio never found out, because Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye was banned in that state as “a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission.” Supporting Cagney are Luther Adler as his equally crooked lawyer, Ward Bond and Barton MacLane as the dishonest cops, and Cagney’s brother William (who produced the film) as Ralph Cotter’s brother.
Cast
James Cagney as Ralph Cotter
Barbara Payton as Holiday Carleton
Helena Carter as Margaret Dobson
Ward Bond as Insp. Charles Weber
Luther Adler as Keith ‘Cherokee’ Mandon
Barton MacLane as Lt. John Reece
Steve Brodie as Joe ‘Jinx’ Raynor
Rhys Williams as Vic Mason
Herbert Heyes as Ezra Dobson
John Litel as Police Chief Tolgate
William Frawley as Byers
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Unfortunately, Audio/Video errors towards the end of this movie make it completely unwatchable.
I wish people wouldn't post bad copies of movies. Decidedly opposite effect of being helpful.
I call it, 'The Rooster Crowed at Midnight' Syndrome.
Dude, Cagney snuffed Neville Brand in the first ten minutes…booo…
She should have stuck to taking Packages of Top Ramen and comic books to her brother.
I❤Cagney
Thank you very much for this gem.
i dont watch a lot of mob movies but james cagney plays a hard core mobster in all his movies a real good actor.
Do everyone a favor and remove this copy. It's a bad, choppy version and I'm sure you're aware of it by now. Respect the classics and remove this.
James Carney and Edward G. Robinson was the best
Goodbye yesterday
This film was so defective their ought to be a law against showing it.
got right into the film then it all went out of sync dont waste your time watching this bad copy
Terrible editing. The sync is way off noises added. This is how a good movie is ruined.
31:37 Why didn't the garage guy shoot Cagney when he had the chance? Cagney was wanted for the prison break and murder and the police would have glad to let the garage guy off for killing him. Right?
From 120 it's missing parts.
The dames were fabulous and classy like cars and great victorian homes.
The quality was terrible, skipping, cut out sound, ending was unwatchable!!!!! I'll Have to find another site, and watch it over!! Too bad it is a great movie, but not on this site!
Reminds me of the first kid I ever got into a fight with at the playground
James Cagney is the MAN. He is one of my favorite actors. Unforgettable in "White Heat." He also won an Academy Award for "Yankee Doodle Dandy" playing the lead character. And boy could he dance!!!
Do not watch this, it is incomplete and will piss you off!
Cagney would have been great to portray the Impeached President for bribery and extortion, Donald Trump in the movie “The life of The Impeached Donald Trump, His Rise And Fall”
Cagney was born to portray the thugs in his movies!!! He was also great in all the other movies too!! Nobody will ever act on the level that he had. He is right up there with john wayne in my mind
BAD COPY…at the end you will see….
Warning…last 10 minutes sucks…bad posting…poor.. missing.. jumpy.. dialogue….
8:45 Fred Mertz get hit in the breadbasket!
19:28 Pop goes the weasel.
Thank you so much James cagney was crazy as cody jarrett. In this movie he was more crazy in this movie. Keep them coming
The blond was a real train-wreck. She was just 23 here and already on her third marriage of five. She was past around hollywood and screwed by almost every guy in the industry. She was an alcoholic, a drug user, and by the early 1960's she would weigh more than 200lbs, broke, homeless, toothless, doing tricks on Hollywood Blvd for booze. She was found dead in her mothers bathroom at age 39.
I watch all these hollywood bios. I like this one.
Enough with the double talk. You've been smoking wacky tabacky. More like Angel's Dust.
It is so refreshing to see in these old movies people actually talking to each other without being on a cell phone half the time.
James cagney is the one and only true live gangster of the 50s 60s
NOT Mike, Michael. Or Mikey.
Great Movie?
Great movie, thanks…..but at the end I thought I was having a stroke or being abducted by aliens….life is complicated
One of the greats!
Thanks for sharing this movie but the video gets scrambled at the end. I couldn't figure out the conclusion ?
J Cagney radote le meme personnage de film en film le pauvre c'a devait etre chiant a la fin
Cagney very naturally sparky in the details in this.
im sorry im sorry , il just drop my panties for you ,, im so alone,,ha ha ha ha
What a great movie. Never saw this one Thanks for posting
cagney was the best then and now
There's a perfect upload on u tube and this isn't it.