Un joven matón va haciéndose un nombre en los bajos fondos de Chicago, incluso cuando la muerte accidental de un gángster amenaza con provocar una sangrienta guerra de bandas.Un joven matón va haciéndose un nombre en los bajos fondos de Chicago, incluso cuando la muerte accidental de un gángster amenaza con provocar una sangrienta guerra de bandas.Un joven matón va haciéndose un nombre en los bajos fondos de Chicago, incluso cuando la muerte accidental de un gángster amenaza con provocar una sangrienta guerra de bandas.
- Nominado a 1 premio Óscar
- 1 premio ganado y 1 nominación en total
- Paddy Ryan
- (as Robert O'Connor)
- Goon
- (sin créditos)
- Dutch
- (sin créditos)
- Kitty
- (sin créditos)
- Tom as a Boy
- (sin créditos)
- Machine Gunner
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- Matt as a Boy
- (sin créditos)
- Miller
- (sin créditos)
- Molly Doyle
- (sin créditos)
- Nails' Girl
- (sin créditos)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
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Argumento
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- TriviaOn the set one day, James Cagney stared at Jean Harlow's nipples and asked, likely in perfect innocence and good humor, "How do you keep those things up?" "I ice them," Harlow said, before trotting off to her dressing room to do just that.
- ErroresThe "Foreword" mentions that the movie is to depict "a certain strata of American life." "Strata" is the plural form of "stratum." The phrase should have been written "a certain stratum of American life."
- Citas
Tom Powers: [Tom shuffles to the breakfast table in his pajamas. He's just finished a demanding call with Nails Nathan] Ain't you got a drink in the house?
Kitty: Well, not before breakfast, dear.
Tom Powers: [immediately annoyed] ... I didn't ask you for any lip. I asked you if you had a drink.
Kitty: [sheepishly] I know Tom, but I, I wish that...
Tom Powers: ... there you go with that wishin' stuff again. I wish you was a wishing well. So that I could tie a bucket to ya and sink ya.
Kitty: Well, maybe you've found someone you like better.
[Angered, Tom grimaces and shoves a piece of grapefruit in her face as he leaves the table.]
- Créditos curiososIt is the ambition of the authors of "The Public Enemy" to honestly depict the environment that exists today in a certain strata of American life, rather than glorify the hoodlum or the criminal. While the story of "The Public Enemy" is essentially a true story, all names and characters appearing herein, are purely fictional.
- Versiones alternativasFor a 1941 re-release, three scenes in "The Public Enemy" were censored to comply with the Production Code. These censored segments (including an extended edit of the scene involving the gay tailor) were restored for the 2005 DVD release.
- ConexionesEdited into Three on a Match (1932)
- Bandas sonorasI'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
(1919) (uncredited)
Music by James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent
Played at various times throughout the film
In my opinion a major credit of the film is that it systematically avoids cliché. Neither Tom nor Matt are outcomes of poverty and social injustice. They come from simple but honest, decent and loving families. But they are both bad (that's the word) and they use the freedom and opportunities of their democratic country to make evil.
In "The Public Enemy" we find probably the first instances of the beautiful stylish cinematography and clever camera-work that will become the trade-mark of later gangster and noir movies. Some scenes are unforgettable, like the final one, or that under the rain, or that of Cagney abusing the girl. The brief scene of the killing of the horse is pure cinematic genius.
In the film there are also some naiveness and clumsiness, though. The way Tom undergoes the personality of his good brother is far-fetched. It is not clear why a gangster in a hospital, wounded in a gun-fight, is not under strict police control. The behavior of Tom's boss in the ending is illogical. Moreover, the part where Tom and Matt are kids is too long (we audience are all eager to see Cagney!), and action is a bit scarce for a gangster movie.
"The Public Enemy" was Cagney's breakout film, and really he makes a powerful and accurate job. Actually, a strong acting is provided by the whole cast. The director William A. Wellmann handles the movie with sound talent.
"The Public Enemy" is a beautiful and historically important movie. I recommend it to any cinema-lover
- pzanardo
- 26 jul 2005
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitio oficial
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- The Public Enemy
- Locaciones de filmación
- Wilshire Blvd, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(convertible ride with Jean Harlow)
- Productora
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Taquilla
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 1,011,520
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 1,214,260
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 23 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1