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The Public Enemy (1931)

Posted By : stillafool | Date : 20 Mar 2009 19:01:00 | Comments : 0

The Public Enemy (1931) Directed by William Wellman
DVDRip | Divx 5 | English (No Subtitles) | 01:23:59 | 720 x 480 | 23.97 fps | MP3 128 kb/sec | 985.74 MB | 1640 k/sec
Genre: Crime / Drama

The Public Enemy (1931) is one of the earliest and best of the gangster films from Warner Bros. in the thirties. The film's screenplay (by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon), which received the film's only Academy Award nomination, was based upon their novel Beer and Blood. Unfortunately, the film wasn't even given a Best Picture nomination, nor was Cagney rewarded with a nomination for his dynamic and kinetic performance. Jean Harlow's small role as a sexy call-girl was her only screen appearance with Cagney and her only lead role with Warners.
Director William Wellman's pre-code, box-office smash, shot in less than a month at a cost of approximately $151,000, was released at approximately the same time as another classical gangster film - Little Caesar (1930) that starred Edward G. Robinson as a petty thief whose criminal ambitions led to his inevitable downfall. The Public Enemy was even tougher, more violent and realistic (released before the censorship codes were strictly enforced), although most of the violence is again off-screen.