After James Cagney went into retirement from filmmaking in 1961 with Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three", he kept a very low profile, preferring to remain on his farm in upstate New York or huddling with his friends at his beloved club The Players in Manhattan. When Cagney reemerged in public in 1974 to accept the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award, audiences were happy to see how well he looked and how vibrant he still was. Here you can view his marvelous acceptance speech which reflected the man himself: humble, grateful and very witty.