

Johnny Come Lately
A Story of a Wanderer Who Stops His Travels Long Enough to Help A Kindly Old Woman in Distress
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.
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- TheatricalNR3 Sept 1943
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Johnny Come Lately was released on 3 September 1943.
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8/21/2025
“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 b…
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