The Public Enemy

The first appearance of the adult Tom and Matt (James Cagney, title character, and Edward Woods), now in 1915 Chicago and still reporting to small-time hoodlum Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell), who’s upping the ante, early in William A. Wellman’s Warner Bros.’ sensation The Public Enemy, 1931.

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime in The Public Enemy (1931), the film that made James Cagney a star.

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Weepy Ma Powers (Beryl Mercer) tells increasingly wayward Chicago punk Tom (James Cagney) that his virtuous streetcar-operator older brother Mike (Donald Cook) has enlisted, leading to a confrontation in William A. Wellman's The Public Enemy, 1931.

Matt (Edward Woods) is getting on a little better with his gal (Joan Blondell) than Tom (James Cagney, title character) with his (Mae Clarke), all of them living high in a posh Chicago hotel when mob boss Nails (Leslie Fenton) rings up, bringing about a fruit-related milestone, in The Public Enemy, 1931.

Chicago thugs Tom (James Cagney, title character) and Matt (Edward Woods) intercept their former mentor Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell), who's back in town after leaving them holding the bag years earlier, in William A. Wellman's The Public Enemy, 1931.

Chicago, 1917, beer truck drivers Tom (James Cagney, title character) and Matt (Edward Woods) aren’t impressed by their brother and sister (Donald Cook, Rita Flynn) getting together, as they visit local operator Ryan (Robert O’Connor) with a scheme, in William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy, 1931.

The tailor, though he makes a rather emphatic statement, is quite un-credited by Warner Bros., needling Tom (James Cagney, title character) and Matt (Donald Woods), on a spending spree after they’ve pulled off a big job, in William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy, 1931.

Now working for Nails (Leslie Fenton) as beer racket enforcers, Tom and Matt (James Cagney, title character, and Edward Woods) lay down some rules on unfortunate Chicago barkeep Steve (Lee Phelps), in William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy, 1931.