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As things start going well for Tom and Matt in the bootlegging racket under Paddy Ryan's (Robert Emmett O'Connor) leadership, Scheiner Burns, a rival gang leader, attempts on taking over Ryan's establishment, leading to more gun-play, especially for Tom, quick on the trigger, only to have things backfire on him. He has a brother, Mike (Donald Cook) who knows of his activities, while their mother (Beryl Mercer) may suspect but overlooks his actions.

Tom Powers character, regardless of his fine upbringing, indicates he was born. His only soft spot for his mother, but far from being a 'Momma's Boy.' Through its passage in time element starting in 1909 Chicago, THE PUBLIC ENEMY plays in the biographical mode, displaying the origins of its main characters, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, as boys (Junior Coughlan and Frankie Darro), leading to their adult lives (James Cagney and Edward Woods) as tough thugs.

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Robinson to stardom, THE PUBLIC ENEMY brought forth another new screen personality, James Cagney, displaying a different kind of movie thug: rough, with guys who betray him tough, with women who get on his nerves or play him for a sucker and ready, to succeed by socking, punching, slapping or killing anybody who gets in his way. A worthy follow-up to the studio's most recent gangster outing, LITTLE CAESAR (1930), that elevated Edward G.

Wellman, is a prime example of how a motion picture produced in the early sound era can still hold up today. THE PUBLIC ENEMY (Warner Brothers, 1931), directed by William A.