• The term was the basis of the title for the 1935 film
G Men, starring
James Cagney, which was one of the top-grossing films of that year. • Kelly's surrender is dramatized in the 1959 film
The FBI Story. The encounter with Kelly is similarly dramatized in the 1973 film
Dillinger. The film was followed by a 1974 television film titled
Melvin Purvis: G-Man. • The Spanish Rock band
Hombres G got its name in 1983 from the Spanish translation of "G-man" and after the
James Cagney film
G Men. • In the
Half-Life video game series (1998–), one of the main characters is a "sinister interdimensional bureaucrat" nicknamed the
G-Man. Dressed in a suit and tie, and often carrying a briefcase, he speaks in a cryptic manner, and periodically intervenes to store or utilise the
player character,
Gordon Freeman, to shape events. •
Garfield High School in
Ohio and
Graham High School in
Virginia both use the
G-Men as the
mascot for their boys' athletic teams. Garfield utilizes
private detective-related imagery, while Graham uses a police badge similar to those used in the United States by
county sheriffs. ==See also==