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In Theaters At Home TV Shows. 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,...
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- James Cagney
- William A. Wellman
- Crime, Drama
The Public Enemy Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand. In the first depression-era films of the mob rats blasting their way to...
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Our hero is a thug and he’s punished for his actions. But, boy, it looks kinda fun up to that point.Oh yeah, they’re gangsters and booze runners who hit up plenty of speakeasies.“Lizzy Jones, big and fat, slipped on the ice and broke her [prat].” (Thanks Phoebe!)The main character kills a cop and a criminal who spurned him when things got tough. He gets away with it both times.My favorite thing about 1931’s Public Enemy is easy to point out, mostly for the fact that it occurs during the film’s opening credits. Just a moment or two after the title card and before we even get to the preamble where Warner Brothers tries to whitewash the film’s violence by claiming to merely be a documentation rather than an exultation, we g...
This isn’t Cagney’s first gangster movie: he was the sidekick to Lew Ayres in Doorway to Hell. In The Public Enemy, Cagney was initially set to again play the sidekick crony to Edward Woods, but di...
This film is available on Amazon via DVD, blu-ray and streaming.Jan 1, 2000 · The Public Enemy Review. Two Irish boys, Tom and Matt, grow up on the wrong side of Chicago and end up the meanest, baddest gansters around. Women, money and fear are their's but rejection by...
Feb 11, 2005 · The Public Enemy. Contrary to popular opinion, the best moment in The Public Enemy isn’t when Jimmy Cagney shoves a grapefruit in his girlfriend’s face. by Chris Barsanti. February 11, 2005.
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.
