The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy (Enemies of the Public in the UK) is a 1931 American all-talking pre-Code gangster film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The screenplay is based on an unpublished novel, Beer and Blood, by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon, two former newspapermen who had witnessed some of Al Capone's murderous gang rivalries in Chicago.
In 1998, The Public Enemy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
==Plot==
The film relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America.
==Cast==
*James Cagney
*Jean Harlow
*Edward Woods
*Donald Cook
*Joan Blondell
*Beryl Mercer
*Murray Kinnell
*Mae Clarke
Category:1931 films
Category:Warner Bros. Pictures films
Category:1930s films
Category:American crime drama films
Category:Gangster films
Category:Films
Category:English-language films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:1:33:1 Aspect Ratio Films