Great Forgotten Scene

yup good scene (pretty bad preparation though from the coppas)

one "forgotten" scene i like to point out (it's not really a scene, more like a moment) is when Verna, Cody and Pardo are chatting one evening, Verna talks about spending the money (she definetely LOVES money, gold digger ;) ) and starts jumping up and down the couch before riding Cody like a horse (like a little girl and her father)

Another thing that struck me as very clever from a cinematic point of view is that the movie starts as a western: the first robbery is the classical attack to a train in a wild place; the train has a steam engine, and the bandits might as well come with horses and Colt Navies in their hands... but the last robbery takes place in a huge chemical plant, as if history had changed the US in the meantime, from the myth of the Wild West we moved to the bleak industrial reality of the post-WWII world. It works very well, and suggests much about the character of Cody--he might have been a hero of the frontier in the 1870s, but in the modern world he's only a psychopath.

I like the small scene at the chemical plant where Cody's wife, Verna Jarrett (Virginia Mayo), shows up and put's on a goody-two-shoes act, trying to convince the detectives to go easy on her if she convinces Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) to give up. I forget the name of the man she's talking to but he is the detective who has been tracking Cody. He "read" her act easily and just says, "Take her away." As they're dragging her off, Verna says something like, "Coppers! They're all the same."
(I understand that back in the day, Policemen's badges were made of copper, hence the terms "Coppers" and it's derivative - still in use today - "Cops.")

I cracked up when Verna spit out her gum on the ground before kissing Cody. What a delightfully cheap dame!