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The Public Enemy (Enemies of the Public in the UK) is a 1931 American pre-Code gangster film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The film was directed by William A. Wellman, and starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Donald Cook and Joan Blondell.
The Public Enemy: Directed by William A. Wellman. With James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell. An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
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- Crime, Drama
- William A. Wellman
- 1931-05-15
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers (James Cagney) and Matt Doyle (Eddie Woods), rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers...
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- James Cagney
- William A. Wellman
- Crime, Drama
The Public Enemy (1931) follows the lives of two kids from the tenements of Chicago's South Side, Powers and Doyle, who find a way out of desperate circumstances through a life of crime, ending with their violent deaths - not at the hands of police (who are rarely seen) but by rival criminals.
- William A. Wellman
- James Cagney
A classic gangster film starring James Cagney as Tom Powers, a ruthless bootlegger in Prohibition-era Chicago. The film traces his rise and fall, his rivalries and betrayals, and his tragic fate.
Find out who starred in and worked on the classic gangster film The Public Enemy, directed by William A. Wellman and featuring James Cagney and Jean Harlow. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and other crew members on IMDb.
The Public Enemy, American gangster film, released in 1931, that became a classic and propelled its lead, James Cagney, to stardom. The story traces the life of an impoverished young man, Tom Powers (played by Cagney), as he escalates from being a petty criminal to heading a murderous bootlegging.
