The 3 movies
Scarface (1932)segment
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The Public Enemy (1931)segment
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Little Caesar (1931)segment
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Show notes
In 1931 and ’32, the gangster genre broke through in Hollywood with three great films: Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and Scarface. The gangster movie has been a durable genre, along with the western, one of the uniquely American film types. There had been such films in the silent era, but the early 1930s was when they suddenly took off. Three Hollywood films in particular, all made within roughly the same year, were the origin points for just about everything that came after, a kind of unholy trinity of crime pictures. The first one was Little Caesar, re...
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