James Cagney “The Public Enemy’
By MEKADO MURPHY, New York Times
America’s love affair with movie gangsters shows no signs of letting up. A. O. Scott looks back at one of the films that helped spark that passion, “The Public Enemy” from 1931. Directed by William Wellman, the film stars James Cagney as a prohibition-era Chicago mobster named Tom Powers. Tom and his cohorts begin as petty thieves, but they rise in the criminal underworld once alcohol is outlawed. Mr. Scott praises Cagney’s performance, along with that of his co-star and love interest Jean Harlow.
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