Nemico pubblico

Titolo originale: The Public Enemy

1931
T
1h 23min

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James Cagney and Jean Harlow in Nemico pubblico (1931)

A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

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Gangster Crime Drama

Un giovane teppista sale tra le file degli inferi di Chicago, anche se la morte accidentale di un gangster minaccia di scatenare una sanguinosa guerra di mafia.Un giovane teppista sale tra le file degli inferi di Chicago, anche se la morte accidentale di un gangster minaccia di scatenare una sanguinosa guerra di mafia.Un giovane teppista sale tra le file degli inferi di Chicago, anche se la morte accidentale di un gangster minaccia di scatenare una sanguinosa guerra di mafia.

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Candidato a 1 Oscar
- 1 vittoria e 1 candidatura in totale

Paddy Ryan
(as Robert O'Connor)

Murray Kinnell

Putty Nose

Lev Abramov

Goon
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Clark Burroughs

Dutch
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Mae Clarke

Kitty
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Tom as a Boy
(non citato nei titoli originali)

George Daly

Machine Gunner
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Frankie Darro

Matt as a Boy
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Snitz Edwards

Miller
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Rita Flynn

Molly Doyle
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Dorothy Gee

Nails' Girl
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Regia
- William A. Wellman
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On the set one day, James Cagney stared at Jean Harlow's nipples and asked, likely in perfect innocence and good humor, "How do you keep those things up?" "I ice them," Harlow said, before trotting off to her dressing room to do just that.

Blooper
In 1915, when Tom meets Putty Nose at the pool hall, the sign on the wall says "Don't spit of the floor. Remember the Jamestown Flood". It was the city of Johnstown, not Jamestown than had the historic flood.

Citazioni
Tom Powers: [Tom stumbles from a gun fight gone wrong with the rival gang. He's barely walking and soaked from the rain] ... I ain't so tough.
[Tom collapses in the gutter]

Curiosità sui crediti
It is the ambition of the authors of "The Public Enemy" to honestly depict the environment that exists today in a certain strata of American life, rather than glorify the hoodlum or the criminal. While the story of "The Public Enemy" is essentially a true story, all names and characters appearing herein, are purely fictional.

Versioni alternative
For a 1941 re-release, three scenes in "The Public Enemy" were censored to comply with the Production Code. These censored segments (including an extended edit of the scene involving the gay tailor) were restored for the 2005 DVD release.

Connessioni
Edited into Three on a Match (1932)

Colonne sonore
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
(1919) (uncredited)
Music by James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent
Played at various times throughout the film

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7/10

the prototype for gangster films to follow

"The Godfather" trilogy and "Goodfellas" owe a lot to this gangster film that preceded them both by at least fifty years. "The Public Enemy" was perhaps one of the first mob films that followed the rise and fall of a gangster and showed not only the implication of his actions on himself but on his family as well.

The film is far from perfect. The first ten minutes of the film in which we are shown a glimpse into the characters' childhood are jerky at best and feel as if much of it was left on the cutting room floor. The movie's incessant fast pace thereafter don't allow for much to sink in, but Cagney saves the day with an absolutely fiery performance. Not one person is spared from his bubbling anger and ferocious delivery.

Finally, the ending will leave you gasping - even by today's standards.

"The Public Enemy" is a must see for any true fan of the mob movie genre.