Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar may have hit theaters first, but The Public Enemy set the pattern, and James Cagney nailed the patter. Not just the street talk either; he also understood its ...

After becoming a popular Hollywood duo with eight shared movie appearances, James Cagney and this actor didn't reunite on the ...

World War I movie starring Hollywood legend James Cagney is a must-watch classic, and fortunately, it's available to stream.

Though gangster activity had been used in film before the 1931 release of The Public Enemy, no actor did it as convincingly as the somewhat short, fast-talking kid from New York’s lower east side: ...

David Chase called James Cagney’s The Public Enemy great horror, but the original movie gangster has haunted The Sopranos in many ways. Share on Facebook (opens in a new tab) Share on Twitter ...

To square everything there's a foreword and postscript moralizing on the gangster as a menace to the public welfare ... s product are a few samples of James Cagney’s deportment as Tom, a ...

His father, James Sr, was an Irish-American bartender ... them and Warners took a punt on the relatively untried Cagney in The Public Enemy (1931). As petty gangster Tom Powers, Cagney was a ...

Robinson, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart ... William A. Wellman's "The Public Enemy" (1931) traces the evolution of hoodlums Tom (Cagney) and Matt (Edward Woods) from prank-playing punks ...

See James Cagney in his star-making role as “The Public Enemy,” playing Saturday to Monday as part of the Stanford Theatre’s huge Warner Bros. film festival. William Wellman’s 1931 ...