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The film was a critical success, though some critics wondered about the social impact of a character that they saw as sympathetic.

Cagney was still struggling against his gangster typecasting.

He said to a journalist, " It's what the people want me to do.

Some day, though, I'd like to make another movie that kids could go and see.

" However, Warners, perhaps searching for another Yankee Doodle Dandy, assigned Cagney a musical for his next picture, 1950's The West Point Story with Doris Day, an actress he admired.