Johnny Come Lately
A Story of a Wanderer Who Stops His Travels Long Enough to Help A Kindly Old Woman in Distress
Overview
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
- Production
- William Cagney Productions
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Cast
James Cagney
Tom Richards
Grace George
Vinnie McLeod
Marjorie Main
'Gashouse' Mary
Marjorie Lord
Jane
Hattie McDaniel
Aida
Edward McNamara
W.M. Dougherty
William Henry
Pete Dougherty
Robert Barrat
Bill Swain
George Cleveland
Willie Ferguson
Margaret Hamilton
Myrtle Ferguso
Norman Willis
Dudley Hirsh
Lucien Littlefield
Blaker
Edwin Stanley
Winterbottom
Irving Bacon
Chief of Police
Clarence Muse
Butler
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
Bouncer
Tom Dugan
Cop
John Sheehan
Cop
John 'Skins' Miller
Tramp
Arthur Hunnicutt
Tramp
Crew
- Director
- William K. Howard
- Writers
- John Van Druten
- Producers
- William Cagney
- Cinematography
- Theodor Sparkuhl
- Composer
- Leigh Harline
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CinemaSerf
August 21, 2025
“Vinnie” (Grace George) has been running the “Banner & Shield” newspaper for a very long time, but it’s no longer what it was and she has had to mortgage everything to the hilt to keep the thing, and it’s quirky collection of staff, from the scrap heap. She is a woman of integrity, though, and so when she attends the local court she encounters “Tom” (James Cagney) who is being accused of vagrancy. He claims to have been a newspaper man, so to save him jail she offers him a job. He accepts as an …