Dorothy West, an interviewer for the New York-based filmed interview series "Intimate Interviews" calls up rising screen star James Cagney and asks for an interview. He agrees and she comes to his house.
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Is it worth your time? If you have a weird obsession with old Hollywood or just want to see a movie star act like a regular human for ten minutes, sure. It’s not a narrative film in any sense of the word. If you go in expecting a biopic or a high-stakes drama, you’re going to be bored out of your mind. It’s for the fol...
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a weird obsession with old Hollywood or just want to see a movie star act like a regular human for ten minutes, sure. It’s not a narrative film in any sense of the word. If you go in expecting a biopic or a high-stakes drama, you’re going to be bored out of your mind. It’s for the folks who like digging through film archives just to see how people held their cigarettes in the 30s. The whole thing is just Dorothy West sitting across from James Cagney. There’s n..."
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