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1931
The Public Enemy is a 1931 American pre-Code gangster film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by William A. Wellman, and starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Donald Cook and Joan Blondell. The film relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in Prohibition-era urban America.
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Period between introduction of sound films in 1927 and enforcement of infamous MPAA Production Code in 1934 was the most exciting in history of Hollywood. Rapid technological progress went hand in hand with a lot of experimentation and creative freedom, resulting in entire genres being introduced or defined. For gangster genre, one of those defining moments happened in 1931 with not one, but two instant classics - *…More
