A season of films featuring one of the screen's great stars and finest actors James Cagney
with Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Frank McHugh

Cagney's first musical role after his debut as the screen's No. 1 gangster. He plays Chester Kent, a musical comedy director who finds himself out of a job with the arrival of talking pictures; but conceives the notion of package musical interludes to play in cinemas during the intervals. This lively backstage story is climaxed by three spectacular Busby Berkeley numbers: 'By a waterfall,' 'Honeymoon hotel,' and 'Shanghai Lil.' Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell are featured in the first two, whilst Cagney himself is 'on stage' for the finale.