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Terrible Joe Moran is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring James Cagney in his final role, Art Carney, [1] and Ellen Barkin. The film, about an aging ex-boxer (Cagney) who needs to use a wheelchair for mobility, won an Emmy Award in 1984. [2] Clips from Cagney's 1932 boxing picture Winner Take ...
Terrible Joe Moran: Directed by Joseph Sargent. With James Cagney, Art Carney, Ellen Barkin, Peter Gallagher. A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.
WATCHING ''Terrible Joe Moran,'' on CBS at 9 tonight, can be an unsettling experience. The star, the very reason for the production being done at all, is James Cagney, making his 64th movie and ...
Synopsis. James Cagney made his TV-movie debut, and did his first television acting in 25 years, playing a wheelchair-bound former boxing champion whose long-estranged granddaughter, an aspiring writer, pops back into his life, at first searching for money to help her ne'er-do-well boyfriend get off the hook with the syndicate and later ...
Terrible Joe Moran is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring James Cagney in his final role, Art Carney, and Ellen Barkin. The film, about an aging ex-boxer (Cagney) who needs to use a wheelchair for mobility, won an Emmy Award in 1984. Clips from Cagney's 1932 boxing picture Winner Take All were used to illustrate the character's earlier career ...
Terrible Joe Moran. A New Yorker (Ellen Barkin) in trouble turns to her grandfather, a boxing champ (James Cagney) in a wheelchair who lives with his trainer (Art Carney).
But Terrible Joe Moran and his chastened grandchild are tearfully reunited in the finale. Critics in 1984 went overboard praising the obviously ailing James Cagney for his bravura performance; only after his death did the truth come out that most of Cagney's dialogue had been dubbed in by an impressionist.
