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Jun 8, 2009 · At the finale of White Heat (1949) the psychotic, mother-fixated gangster Cody Jarrett is surrounded by the police atop a giant gas tank in a chemical factory. He yells defiantly: Made it, Ma!...
Unlike Tom Powers in The Public Enemy, Jarrett was portrayed as a raging lunatic with few if any sympathetic qualities. In the 18 intervening years, Cagney's hair had begun to gray, and he developed a paunch for the first time.
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.
Oct 16, 2014 · Rated as the eighth best gangster film of all time by AFI, The Public Enemy is an American film directed by William Wellman in 1931. It was based on the novel, Beer and Blood, and was written...
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Oct 21, 2010 · Much of the violence in The Public Enemy – including the shooting of the traitorous Putty Nose, and the vengeance killing of a horse that may have inspired similar animal cruelty in The Godfather (1972) – occurs off-camera.
Dec 2, 2003 · The conventional critical identification of The Public Enemy with Little Caesar and Scarface as the trilogy of “classic” early 1930s gangster movies has encouraged a reading of its plot as if it portrayed the rise and fall of a gangster in Capone’s image.
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Dec 12, 2011 · The Public Enemy marks perhaps one of the highlights of the gangster film genre even now, seventy years after its release in 1931. At their core, gangster films are all more or less the same and from my perspective the differences between them are in realism and the avoidance of clichés.
