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The Public Enemy ( Enemies of the Public in the UK) [6] 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 film relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld ...
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. Tom Powers and Matt Doyle are best friends and fellow gangsters. Their lives are frowned on by Tom's WWI veteran brother Mike and by Matt's straitlaced sister Molly. From their teenage years into young-adulthood, Tom and Matt lead increasingly lucrative lives ...
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 ring. Although he achieves tremendous power, he ...
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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
Public Enemy, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Grow Up Sometime The first appearance of the adult Tom and Matt (James Cagney, title character, and Edward Woods), now in 1915 Chicago and still reporting to small-time hoodlum Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell), who’s upping the ante, early in William A. Wellman’s Warner Bros.’ sensation The Public Enemy, 1931.
- William A. Wellman
- James Cagney
Although The Public Enemy is now most remembered for the famous scene in which James Cagney smashes half a grapefruit into the face of actress Mae Clark—an act that more than one critic has termed the most vicious in all of motion picture history—the film is, in fact, one of the first of the gangster genre to examine the sociological roots ...
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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 and cold-blooded killers. But ...
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