It was again remade (with the same gender twist, but newspapers were updated to a TV news environment) asSwitching Channels (1988)by director Ted Kotcheff, with Burt Reynolds and Kathleen Turner in the lead roles, and a frosted-haired Christopher Reeve as the third individual in the love triangle, a New York millionaire.Father: Well, I guess they""d give ya bad dreams.Ann: Bad dreams? You don""t understand, Papa.Upstairs, Charlie lies "thinking for hours," psychologically restless and despairing to her calm, bank-teller father of her family""s entrapment in a passion-less, middle-class life where "nothing happens".You gotta stop that kind of dreaming.One or the other." Tina grabbed the crucifix hanging above her bed and pressed it to herself.In the next soft-focus shot, girls in white dresses were skipping rope and singing:"One, two, Freddy""s coming for you, Three, four, Better lock your door, Five, Six, Grab your crucifix.Wellman""sThe Public Enemy (1931)and Michael Curtiz""sAngels With Dirty Faces (1938).After this pivotal 1949 film in Cagney""s career as an archetypal, pugnacious gangster, he never achieved the same apotheosis, starring in such films asKiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950), the musical bioLove Me or Leave Me (1955), the comedy-dramaMister Roberts (1955), the Cold War comedyOne Two Three (1961), and after a long 20 year hiatus,Ragtime (1981).As the rocket flew across the sky, a clever ""phallic wordplay"" conversational montage kept cutting back and forth, offering lots of synonyms for male genitals.