The Public Enemy (1931)






An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , April 1931
Photoplay , May 1931
Photoplay , May 1931

Photoplay , June 1931
Photoplay , July 1931

Screenplay

Henry Cohen (editor)
The Public Enemy
London, 1981

Books with substantial mentioning of The Public Enemy

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Lloyd Hughes
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies
London, 2005

Jack Shadoian
Dreams & dead ends, The American gangster film
Oxford; New York, 2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Jonathan Munby
Public Enemies, Public Heroes, Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Chicago and London, 1999

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Homer Dickens
The Films of James Cagney
Secaucus, NJ, 1972

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970

Books with an entry on The Public Enemy

Larry Langman and Daniel Finn
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties
Westport, Connecticut - London, 1995