Each Dawn I Die
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Each Dawn I Die | |
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Directed by | William Keighley |
Produced by | David Lewis Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner |
Written by | Warren Duff Jerome Odlum (novel) Norman Reilly Raine Charles Perry (uncredited) |
Starring | James Cagney George Raft Jane Bryan George Bancroft |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
Editing by | Thomas Richards |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date(s) | 22 July 1939 |
Running time | 92 min |
Language | English |
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Each Dawn I Die (1939) is a gangster film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together. The plotline involves a crusading reporter (Cagney) who is unjustly thrown in jail and befriends a famous gangster (Raft). George Bancroft plays the warden. The movie was a box-office smash and remains a favorite among aficionados of Warner Brothers gangster movies.
[edit] Trivia
Between the period of 1928 to 1941 this was one of many films to be banned in Australia by the Chief Censor Creswell O'Reilly.