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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.
Cagney and Edward Woods in The Public Enemy (1931) Warner Brothers' succession of gangster movie hits, in particular Little Caesar with Edward G. Robinson, [53] culminated in the 1931 film The Public Enemy. Due to the strong reviews he had received in his short film career, Cagney was cast as nice-guy Matt Doyle, opposite Edward Woods as Tom ...
William Wellman's The Public Enemy (1931) was released by Warner Brothers the following year and features another career defining performance, this time by James Cagney. It was adapted from the unpublished novelette Beer and Blood written by John Bright, and adapted for the screen by Kubec Glasmon and Bright. [41] [42] Enemy takes place from ...
In April 1931, the same month as the release of The Public Enemy, Hays recruited former police chief August Vollmer to conduct a study on the effect gangster pictures had on children. After he had finished his work, Vollmer stated that gangster films were innocuous and even overly favorable in depicting the police. [123]
Movies included a brief appearance in Warner Bros.’ gangster film The Public Enemy (1931) in which he was uncredited. [12] By 1931, Williams and a partner had founded their own movie and newsreel company called the Lincoln Talking Pictures Company. The company was self-financed. [13]
The rights to the film were recovered after Hughes's death in the 1970s. Alongside Little Caesar and The Public Enemy (both 1931), Scarface is regarded as one of the most significant and influential gangster films. Scarface was added to the National Film Registry in 1994 by the Library of Congress.
This article originally appeared in the September 1989 issue of SPIN. It was a horror movie, evil descending on a New York summer that had begun with a brutal gang-rape in Central Park and a ...
The most notable of these, Beer and Blood, became the 1931 film The Public Enemy starring James Cagney. [2] The two were nominated for a 1931 Academy Award for Best Story. In 1933 he became one of the ten founders of the Screen Writers Guild.