| The Public Enemy Contributor(s): Cohen, Henry (Editor), Balio, Tino (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299084647 ISBN-13: 9780299084646 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1981 Annotation: The Public Enemy, a 1931 Warner Brothers gangster classic, is easily remembered as the movie in which James Cagney used Mae Clarke's nose as a grapefruit grinder. As Cagney recalls, it was just about the first time that 'a woman had been treated like a broad on the screen, instead of like a delicate flower.' As Henry Cohen points out in his introduction to the film script, however, the grapefruit scene is an uncommon touch of honesty in a film that, under the pressure of the Hays Office, swing awkwardly between typical Warners realism and sentimental accommodation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812.52 |
| LCCN: 80052292 |
| Series: Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.6" W x 8.27" (0.51 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Public Enemy, a 1931 Warner Brothers gangster classic, is easily remembered as the movie in which James Cagney used Mae Clarke's nose as a grapefruit grinder. As Cagney recalls, it was just about the first time that a woman had been treated like a broad on the screen, instead of like a delicate flower. |