To paraphrase one of Cagney's lines in this movie I can't work up much of a sweat over it unlike the majority of those who have reviewed it here. I have nothing against 1) Warners, 2) Cagney and 3) the Warners' 'torn-from- the-headlines' series that punctuated the nineteen thirties but seen in 2012 it just seems a trifle thin. Without checking his CV I'm guessing that this one of the the first Cagney titles to feature him on the 'right' side of the law though this is no surprise because like his colleagues at Warners, Bogie and Eddie Robinson, he had started in the theatre and was as versatile as the other two - I can't, alas, say the same for George Raft, a fourth 'hood' at the studio. One of the best things in G-Men is Ann Dvorak as the nightclub singer carrying a torch for the Cagney character whilst Margaret Lindsay gets lumbered with yet another thankless role albeit she does get Cagney in the end. Possibly would have seemed much better in 1935.