The Public Enemy (Blu-ray)
All his life he took what he wanted...Why not women?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 21, 2013
- Originally Released: 1931
- Label: Turner Classic Movie
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Cagney & Jean Harlow | |
Performer: | Eddie Woods, Beryl Mercer, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Mae Clarke & Leslie Fenton | |
Directed by | William A. Wellman | |
Edited by | Ed McCormick | |
Screenwriting by | Kubec Glasmon & John Bright | |
Written by | Kubec Glasmon | |
Composition by | David Mendoza | |
Cinematography by | Devereaux Jennings | |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck | |
Director of Photography: | Devereaux Jennings |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Crime may not pay, but The Public Enemy was one of the first pictures to recognize that it sure can be exciting to watch.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: B --
The film's juiciest scene has the misogynist Tom squeeze a half a grapefruit in his nagging girlfriend Kitty's (Mae Clarke) kisser.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: A --
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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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Variety
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.
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Time Out
[Cagney] became a sensation with his searing performance as the streetwise gangster Tom Powers in this William Wellman classic.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 9/10 --
1931's The Public Enemy is still at this stage one of the best gangster films ever made.
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Product Description:
In William Wellman's classic crime film THE PUBLIC ENEMY, James Cagney does a star turn as Tom Powers, a trouble-ridden individual who rises from the position of cheap thug to that of a powerful Prohibition gangster. When his best friend is murdered, Powers self-destructively seeks deadly retaliation. He picks fights. He slaps women around. He roughs up speakeasy owners and tells them whom they'll get their hooch from and how much they'll order. Fists, kisses, and guns are the only things Tom knows. He eventually gets promoted to become the muscleman of mobster Nails Nathan (Leslie Fenton). But Tom's violent acts are about to catch up with him. After Tom guns down a cop, he's on the run. Later, thugs dump him, beaten, on the doorstep of his estranged and horrified family. It's only then that Tom realizes his decision to live the gangster life has been an irrevocable and deadly choice. Known as the picture that launched Cagney into stardom, THE PUBLIC ENEMY doesn't hold back from exposing the violence and tedium underscoring this ostensibly sexy life of crime. The screenplay, based on a story entitled BEER AND BLOOD by John Bright and written by Harvey F. Thew, was nominated for an Academy Award.