THE PUBLIC ENEMY.

Cohen, Henry. (Edited with introduction) Balio, Tino. (General editor) Thew, Harvey. (Screenplay Based on the Novel By Kubec Glasmon and John Bright)

ISBN 10: 0299084604 / ISBN 13: 9780299084608

Published by WISCONSIN., MADISON, 1981

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SIGNED on neatly tipped-in cards by cast members: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Frankie Darro, Donald Cook, Frank Coghlan & Eddie Kane. Fine in a fine dj.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PUBLIC ENEMY.
• Publisher: WISCONSIN., MADISON
• Publication Date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0299084604
• ISBN 13: 9780299084608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • 212

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Synopsis

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."
The ambivalence toward women is just one of the many stylistic contradictions that make The Public Enemy worth studying, not only for its intrinsic merits but also as a creative expression bending under the constraints of censorship.

From the Back Cover

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.