In this motion picture adaptation of William Saroyan's award-winning play The Time of Your Life, James Cagney plays a gentle barfly named Joe who settles in Nick's (William Bendix) Bar with various colorful characters like an imaginative old cowboy or a tap dancing comic who can't get laughs.
His sister Jeanne plays Kitty Duval, a woman who claims to once have been in burlesque.
She and her brother have some of the most touching scenes in the movie.
The pace takes a while to get used to but if you're in the mood for something optimistically offbeat, The Time of Your Life should be up your alley.
Run time: 109 min.
