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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790792248
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790792249
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 13747
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 23, 1931
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
James Cagney gives a tour-de-force performance in his tough-guy portrayal of a petty hoodlum who rises to big-time gangster.Running Time: 82 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569690622
Amazon.com essential video:
Director William Wellman (Wings), a World War I veteran who turned his experiences in battle into an insistence on unpretentious violence in his films, made Public Enemy a particularly brutal account of the rise and fall of a monstrous gangster (James Cagney). Cagney delivers one of the most famous performances in film history as the snarling crook who--in one of the film's most famous scenes--smashes a grapefruit into the face of Mae Clarke. The film's a bit dated, but its action scenes still pack an unusual wallop. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Ultimate Tough Guy
Tom Powers (James Cagney) is a heel and has been ever since childhood when he and his friend Matt Doyle (Edward Woods) used to steal beer and torment the neighborhood. Now he's all grown up and he has moved on to bigger but not better things. From manhandling his women (Mae Clarke) to murdering old pals, Tom is nothing short of a terror. In spite of his nastiness, one can't help but like him and hope that he gets away with his terrible deeds.
The use of violence in the film is interesting. ... Read More
Rating:  - Classic Period Piece
Public Ememy is a classic "period piece" that takes you back to that time & place in American history (which is what the truely great period movies do) and it still "hold up well" even though it is going on 80 years old.
Rating:  - shottas
The dvd was defective and did not play. I tried it in two dvd players.
The other ones played. I am currently diputing this transaction with my credit card company.
Rating: - A great film
Amazingly this film came out the same year as 'Little Ceasar'. Two great and highly influential gangster movies released in 1931.
The most obvious film that this influenced was Scorsese's Goodfellas. Cagney's character is Tommy (Tommy is Joe Pesci). The first ten minutes of the film are two boys learning how to be gangsters. Its the same in Goodfellas. Robert DeNiro played Jimmy Conway. 'Nails' Nathan is Jimmy. Both play the older guy looking after their younger compatriates.
The ... Read More
Rating: - The Public Enemy
Wellman's "The Public Enemy" launched the film career of a pugnacious Irish-American from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen who started out as a dancer, only to become the toughest tough guy of them all: Jimmy Cagney, never cockier than he is here. Since organized crime was a fairly new and frightening epidemic at the time, Wellman gives "Enemy" the stark feel of a purely cautionary tale. Both the famous grapefruit scene and Tom's final homecoming still pack a wallop, and a stunning Jean Harlow injects plenty of sex ... Read More
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