Smart Money is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney.
It is the only occasion Robinson and Cagney appeared in a film together, despite being the two leading actors, mainly portraying gangsters, at Warner Bros. studios throughout the 1930s.
The supporting cast includes Evalyn Knapp, Margaret Livingston (the "Woman from the City" in F. W. Murnau's 1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans), and an unbilled but prominently featured Boris Karloff, who portrayed the monster in Frankenstein later the same year.
The writing team of Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson[1] were nominated at the 4th Academy Awards in the now defunct Best Story category.
He learns from Marie, the pretty blonde working at the hotel cigar stand, where Hickory is holding his illegal, high-stakes poker game.
As they are driving by, they are stopped and asked to take a young woman who has been fished half drowned out of the river to the hospital.
Irene revives during the ride, but Nick insists she stay at his mansion until she is fully recovered, over the very suspicious Jack's protests.
Smart Money was released on DVD by Warner Bros in 2008, and featured an audio commentary by Alain Silver & James Ursini.