The Public Enemy - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Public Enemy"

The Public Enemy (1931)

Timing: 1:23 (83 min)

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Actors and characters

Film crew

Director

Producer

Kubec Glasmon

Writer

John Bright

Writer

Edward M. McDermott

Editor

Max Parker

Art Direction

Devereaux Jennings

Director of Photography

Earl Luick

Costume Designer

David Mendoza

Conductor

Harvey F. Thew

Adaptation

Harry L. Underwood

Assistant Camera

The famous grapefruit scene was not originally in the script. James Cagney and Mae Clarke decided to play a similar prank on the crew. The director liked it and decided to include the scene in the film.
James Cagney (1899-1986) incorporated traits of Dean O'Banion (1892-1924, a gangster, the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the bootleg wars in Chicago in the 1920s) and two bullies he knew as a child in New York into the image of his character.
The film accurately points out that Chicago bootleggers focused primarily on the underground supply and trade of beer – unlike New York, where hard liquor was the main focus of bootlegging. The reason for this difference lies in geography: when it comes to alcohol content, much more beer is required to achieve the same level of intoxication, so engaging in the illicit distribution of beer in the limited spaces of Manhattan would not be a very practical undertaking.
In one of the scenes featuring characters played by James Cagney (1899-1986) and Edward Woods (1903-1989), actual machine gun bullets were indeed used. A firearms specialist climbed onto a platform approximately five meters from the target, and when James Cagney disappeared behind a wall, he opened fire, creating a circle of bullet impacts with a tight grouping.

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