In this adaptation of William Saroyan's award-winning play The Time of Your Life, James Cagney plays a gentle barfly named Joe who settles in Nick's (William Bendix) Bar with various colorful characters like an imaginative old cowboy or a tap dancing comic who can't get laughs.

His sister Jeanne plays Kitty Duval, a woman who claims to once have been in burlesque.

She and her brother have some of the most touching scenes in the movie.

The pace takes a while to get used to but if you're in the mood for something optimistically offbeat, The Time of Your Life should be up your alley.

Date : 1948
Cast : James Cagney ...

Joseph T.

(who observes people)
William Bendix ...

Nick (saloon owner who loves horses)
Wayne Morris (American actor) ...

Tom (Joe's stooge and friend)
Jeanne Cagney ...

Kitty Duval (stage name of Katerina Koronovsky)
Broderick Crawford ...

Krupp (a bewildered cop)
Ward Bond ...

McCarthy (a blatherskite  EEE a person who blathers a lot)
James Barton (vaudevillian) ...

Kit Carson (a cowboy also called Murphy)
Paul Draper (dancer) ...

Harry (the natural-born tap dancing comedian)
Gale Page ...

Mary L.

(a woman of quality)
Jimmy Lydon ...

Dudley Raoul Bostwick (a young man in love) (billed as James Lydon)
Richard Erdman ...

Willie (the pinball machine maniac)
Tom Powers ...

Freddie Blick (a stool pigeon and frame up artist)
Pedro de Cordoba ...

Arab philosopher
Reginald Beane ...

Wesley (the pianist)
John 'Skins' Miller ...

Drunk
Natalie Schafer....Bar patron