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The Public Enemy
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Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But when one of their colleagues dies in a freak accident, a rival bootlegging faction senses weakness among Tom and Matt's gang...
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But when one of their colleagues dies in a freak accident, a rival bootlegging faction senses weakness among Tom and Matt's gang...
Actors:
Frank Coghlan Jr.,
Sam McDaniel,
Jean Harlow,
Lee Phelps,
Eddie Kane,
Ben Hendricks Jr.,
Helen Parrish,
William H. Strauss,
Frankie Darro,
Harold Minjir,
Leslie Fenton,
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Frank Coghlan Jr.
March 15, 1916 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Sam McDaniel
January 28, 1886 in Wichita, Kansas, USA
Jean Harlow
3 March 1911, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Lee Phelps
15 May 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Eddie Kane
August 12, 1889 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Ben Hendricks Jr.
November 2, 1893 in New York City, New York, USA
Helen Parrish
March 12, 1923 in Columbus, Georgia, USA
William H. Strauss
June 13, 1885 in New York City, New York, USA
Frankie Darro
22 December 1917, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Harold Minjir
October 5, 1895 in Denver, Colorado, USA
Leslie Fenton
12 March 1902, Liverpool, England, UK
Director:
William A. Wellman
William A. Wellman
29 February 1896, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Country:
United States
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
February 20, 2006
The implication is that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of guys like Tom Powers, little criminals living fast and dying hard.
February 09, 2006
Cagney's energy and Wellman's gutsy direction carry the day, counteracting the moralistic sentimentality of the script and indelibly etching the star on the memory as a definitive gangster hero.
January 20, 2006
The film set the template for the likes of "Scarface" and "GoodFellas."
LarsenOnFilm
July 05, 2009
Crime may not pay, but The Public Enemy was one of the first pictures to recognize that it sure can be exciting to watch.
April 09, 2006
Its success proved, if by then there was any doubt, that audiences will go for a charismatic lowlife over a dull hero any day of the week, a lesson Hollywood never forgot.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
March 02, 2008
Top notch Cagney gangster flick with memorable final scene.
October 30, 2007
There's no lace on this picture. It's raw and brutal. It's low-brow material given such workmanship as to make it high-brow.
January 14, 2016
In spite of woodenness, creakiness in plot, and unintentional humor in printed piety, ' The Public Enemy,' a film of its time, was a sensation at that time, and is still not to be missed today.
October 30, 2007
Still a classic of the gangster genre, showing neither glorifying the life nor pulling its punches.
January 01, 2000
James Cagney's portrayal of a bootlegging runt is truly electrifying (he'd made five films, but this one made him a star), and Jean Harlow makes the tartiest tart imaginable.
December 15, 2007
The film's juiciest scene has the misogynist Tom squeeze a half a grapefruit in his nagging girlfriend Kitty's (Mae Clarke) kisser.
August 12, 2011
This early sound film, which made a star of James Cagney, remains one of the most influential crime-gangster films ever made, establishing the basic narrative format of the popular genre.