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White Heat was released on 2 September 1949.

50-year-old James Cagney had vowed to never do another gangster film, and vowed never to return to Warner Bros (Cagney had successfully sued the studio for breach of contract in 1935), but admitted he “needed the money.”

Cagney had script approval and settled on a story by Virginia Kellogg (Kellogg received the film’s only Academy Award nomination), with Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts writing the screenplay (with input from Cagney’s friends Humphrey Bogart and Frank McHugh).

Cagney was unhappy that Raoul Walsh had been hired to direct, even though they had worked together twice before (1939′s The Roaring Twenties, and 1941′s The Strawberry Blonde).

White Heat was a commercial and critical success, and was listed as one of Time magazine’s “Best Movies of All Time” (since 1923).

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Ivan Goff ft. Chuck Brown - Misty

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Midnight Lace (1960). In London, a newly-wed American woman's sanity comes into question when she claims to be the victim of a stalker.

This isn’t a bad movie exactly - in fact, it’s a pretty fun little mystery thriller, but it leans heavily on tropes and cliches, and the twist of the end is, as a result, pretty obvious from the outset. Doris Day is, as always, a commanding screen presence, and there’s some terrific art department throughout, but otherwise it’s a fairly basic thriller. 6/10.

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Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife, and his premature death.

I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for James Cagney, but this film is representative of the twilight of his career - he was doing a lot of backstage bio pics, and he was kind of phoning it in. His natural charisma was still off the charts, but the movies were lazy, and never quite worked. Man of a Thousand Faces isn’t an exception to that. The movie never goes as deep as it should, and it feels gimmicky, in a way that is pretty gross. Cagney is solid though, and Dorothy Malone is really good, so it has that, at least. 6/10.

[thebookofthefilm]

The 1960 film Midnight Lace, starring Rex Harrison and Doris Day, was written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, and based on the play Matilda Shouted Fire by Janet Green. This script was in turn novelised by William Drummond for Pan, released the same year as the film.

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Cult TV Essentials: Time Express

Cult TV Essentials: Time Express

Running for four episodes in 1979, Time Express was an anthology fantasy series created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts.

Similar to Fantasy Island, guests would arrive each week to be welcomed aboard the Time Express by the husband and wife hosts Jason and Margaret Winters (Vincent Price and Coral Browne). Also on the train were R.J. Walker the conductor (played by James Reynolds), the Ticket clerk…

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