The Public Enemy
Tommy Powers is involved with crime since childhood. He becomes a full time hoodlum, involved with boot-legging and the gang warfare which accompanies organised crime.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Tom Powers James Cagney
- Gwen Allen Jean Harlow
- Matt Doyle Edward Woods
- Mamie Joan Blondell
- Mike Powers Donald Cook
- Samuel 'Nails' Nathan Leslie Fenton
- Ma Powers Beryl Mercer
- Paddy Ryan Robert Emmett O'connor
- Putty Nose Murray Kinnell
- [Kitty] Mae Clarke
- [Jane] Mia Marvin
- [Bugs Moran] Ben Hendricks Jr
- [Molly Doyle] Rita Flynn
- [Dutch] Clark Burroughs
- [Hack] Snitz Edwards
- [Mrs Doyle] Adele Watson
- [Tom as a boy] Frank Coghlan Jr
- [Matt as a boy] Frankie Darro
- [Officer Pat Burke] Robert E. Homans
- [Nails's girl] Dorothy Gee
- [Officer Powers] Purnell Pratt
- [Steve, the bartender] Lee Phelps
- [little girl] Helen Parrish
- [little girl] Dorothy Gray
- [little girl] Nanci Price
- [Bugs as a boy] Ben Hendricks Iii
- [machine gunner] George Daly
- [Joe, head waiter] Eddie Kane
- [mug] Charles Sullivan
- [assistant tailor] Douglas Gerrard
- [black head waiter] Sam Mcdaniel
- [pawnbroker] William H. Strauss
- [doctor] Landers Stevens
- [bartender] Russ Powell
Credits
Direction
- Directed by William A. Wellman
Production
- © Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
- Presents Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
- Presents Vitaphone Corporation
- [Executive Producer] Darryl F. Zanuck
Writing
- [Written] By Kubec Glasmon
- [Written] By John Bright
- Screen Adaptation by Harvey Thew
Photography
- Photography by Dev Jennings
Editing
- Edited by Edward Mcdermott
Design
- Art Director Max Parker
Costumes
- Wardrobe by Earl Luick
Make-up
- [Make-up Artist] Perc Westmore
Music
- {Music Performed by} Vitaphone Orchestra
- Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by David Mendoza
Sound
- Used Exclusively Brunswick Radios
