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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:While Tommy's family has been led to believe he's coming home, his brother answers the door face to face with his corpse, propped up like he's standing. Then it falls over the threshold, face-forward]].
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* RiseAndFallGangsterArc: One of the earliest examples of the trope, along with ''Film/LittleCaesar''.
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* AdaptationTitleChange: ''The Public Enemy'' was based on the novel ''Beer and Blood''.
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* GanglandDriveBy: Matt is killed this way.
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* PieInTheFace[=/=]FoodSlap: The film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4R5wZs8cxI iconic scene]] has Tom smashing a half grapefruit into his girlfriend's face.
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* PieInTheFace[=/=]FoodSlap: PieInTheFace: The film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4R5wZs8cxI iconic scene]] has Tom smashing a half grapefruit into his girlfriend's face.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: Putty Nose begs and pleads to Tom and Mike when they are about to kill him]].
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: Putty Nose begs and pleads to Tom and Mike when they are about to kill him]].him. It doesn't work.]]
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''The Public Enemy'' is a 1931 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] Creator/WarnerBros gangster film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman. It's often seen as the film that made Creator/JamesCagney a star. It also typecast him as a tough guy and gangster, and he kept playing roles like that throughout TheThirties.
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''The Public Enemy'' is a 1931 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] Creator/WarnerBros gangster film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman. It's often seen as the film that made Creator/JamesCagney a star. It also typecast him as a tough guy and gangster, and he kept he'd keep on playing roles like that throughout TheThirties.
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* TheIrishMob
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* TheIrishMobTheIrishMob: They seem to be the only mob that exists in Chicago; all the turf wars in the film are between different Irish-American gangs, every gangster has an Irish name, and no references are made to [[TheMafia the Italian-American mafia]] or the [[KosherNostra Jewish-American mob]] (save for an immigrant businessman who agrees to set up a bootlegging operation with Nathan's gang, who is implied to be a Jewish German).
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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:A rare male example: while Tom is lying low at Paddy Ryan's house, he gets shitfaced one night, and Paddy's girlfriend (who is sober) takes advantage of him off-screen. The next morning, when Tom finally remembers what had happened, he angrily slaps Paddy's girlfriend and storms out of the house. This gets Matt killed, as he follows Tom outside in an attempt to bring him back in, which exposes himself to a rival gang.]]
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The tailor, in who is in approximately 2 minutes of the film. See for yourself right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSIDwa_MG_E&feature=related here.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: There is a scene right after Tom comes into a lot of money where he is getting measured for a new suit. The tailor has a bit ''too'' much fun taking the measurements...
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* CoolGuns: Tom's revolver.
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* CoolGuns: Tom's revolver.Colt Police revolver.
* CorporalPunishment: It's suggested that one of the reasons why Tom became a vicious bootlegger was because his father regularly spanked him when he was a kid.
-->'''Young Tom''': How do you want 'em - up or down this time?
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* CorporalPunishment: It's suggested that one of the reasons why Tom became a vicious bootlegger was because his father regularly spanked him when he was a kid.
-->'''Young Tom''': How do you want 'em - up or down this time?
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* MOHSScaleOfViolenceHardness: It scores a 3.
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* MOHSScaleOfViolenceHardness: It scores MobBossSuitFitting: The TropeMaker, although the tailor's taking measurements, rather than Powers and his accompanying mook, discuss a 3.certain recent liquor warehouse heist.
* SickbedSlaying: This is implied to happen when Tom winds up in the hospital and some rival gangsters decide to pay him a visit. He is delivered home dead.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The way [[spoiler:Tommy]]'s death is revealed at the end-- his corpse is delivered ''standing up'' to his family's front door.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The way [[spoiler:Tommy]]'s death is revealed at [[spoiler:While Tommy's family has been led to believe he's coming home, his brother answers the end-- door face to face with his corpse is delivered ''standing up'' to his family's front door.corpse, propped up like he's standing. Then it falls over the threshold, face-forward]].
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* {{Bookends}}: Opens with a message that this film's purpose isn't to glorify gangsters, and closes with the message that 'The Public Enemy' is a problem in society that must be stopped.
* CallBack: When Tom and Matt are kids, they and some other kids listen to Putty Nose singing and playing on the piano, and interrupt him before he finishes. When Tom and Matt are adults, [[spoiler:they kill a pleading Putty Nose at the same part of the song]].
* CallBack: When Tom and Matt are kids, they and some other kids listen to Putty Nose singing and playing on the piano, and interrupt him before he finishes. When Tom and Matt are adults, [[spoiler:they kill a pleading Putty Nose at the same part of the song]].
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* {{Bookends}}: BookEnds: Opens with a message that this film's purpose isn't to glorify gangsters, and closes with the message that 'The Public Enemy' is a problem in society that must be stopped.
* CallBack: When Tom and Matt are kids, they and some other kids listen to Putty Nose singing and playing on the piano, and interrupt him before he finishes. When Tom and Matt are adults, [[spoiler:they kill a pleading Putty Nose at the same part of the song]].stopped.
* CallBack: When Tom and Matt are kids, they and some other kids listen to Putty Nose singing and playing on the piano, and interrupt him before he finishes. When Tom and Matt are adults, [[spoiler:they kill a pleading Putty Nose at the same part of the song]].
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tom and Matt shooting a horse after a friend of theirs dies riding it.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tom and Matt shooting a horse after a friend of theirs dies riding it. This was based on a real incident.
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* IronicEcho: When Tom and Matt are kids, they and some other kids listen to Putty Nose singing and playing on the piano, and interrupt him before he finishes. When Tom and Matt are adults, [[spoiler:they kill a pleading Putty Nose at the same part of the song]].
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* BallisticDiscount: Possible TropeMaker for film. The gun shop owner is so dumb he even loads the gun for Tom, while the gun is in Tom's hand.
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* RashAndCalmFoils: Tom is the quick-to-anger gangster, while his older brother Mike is the calm, respectable type.
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* RashAndCalmFoils: RedOniBlueOni: Tom is the quick-to-anger gangster, gangster (red), while his older brother Mike is the calm, respectable type.type (blue).
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Creator/JeanHarlow appears as Gwen, Tom's moll. Creator/JoanBlondell plays an earlier girlfriend that gets thrown over in favor of Gwen. Mae Clarke plays yet another girlfriend, who has a memorable encounter with a grapefruit.
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Creator/JeanHarlow appears as Gwen, Tom's moll. Creator/JoanBlondell plays an earlier girlfriend that gets thrown over in favor of Gwen. Mae Clarke Creator/MaeClarke plays yet another girlfriend, who has a memorable encounter with a grapefruit.
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* BattleInTheRain: Subverted--a torrential rain is falling in Chicago as Tom goes into the rival gang's headquarters to shoot it out, but all of the shooting takes place offscreen.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Seen from Matt after he is gunned down in a hail of bullets.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Seen from Matt after he is gunned down in a hail of bullets.
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* BattleInTheRain: Subverted--a torrential rain is falling in Chicago as Tom goes into the rival gang's headquarters to shoot it out, but all of the shooting takes place offscreen.
off-screen.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Seen fromMatt [[spoiler:Matt]] after he is gunned down in a hail of bullets.
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* CallBack: When Tom and Matt are kids, they and some other kids listen to Putty Nose singing and playing on the piano, and interrupt him before he finishes. When Tom and Matt are adults, [[spoiler:they kill a pleading Putty Nose at the same part of the song]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Tom and Matt shooting a horse after a friend of theirs dies riding it.
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* DownerEnding: Tom's in the hospital due to his injuries from avenging a fallen comrade, and when it looks like he's about to redeem himself, he gets kidnapped by the surviving mob members. But then his family gets a call from a stranger, presumably one of Tom's pals, that Tom's coming home immediately! As the mother and sister tidy up Tom's room, his brother Mike opens the door and watches Tom's dead body collapse before him.
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* DownerEnding: Tom's in the hospital due to his injuries from avenging a fallen comrade, and when it looks like he's about to redeem himself, he gets kidnapped by the surviving mob members. But then his family gets a call from a stranger, presumably one of Tom's pals, that Tom's coming home immediately! As the mother and sister tidy up Tom's room, his brother Mike opens the door and watches [[spoiler:watches Tom's dead body collapse before him.him]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Putty Nose walks down the street he sees a black cat crossing his path [[spoiler: before Tom and Matt kill him]].
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* KilledMidSentence: Putty Nose's song is cut off at the same point as earlier in the film, when Tom and Matt were kids.
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* KilledMidSentence: Putty [[spoiler:Putty Nose's song is cut off at the same point as earlier in the film, when Tom and Matt were kids.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Tom's reaction to Matt's death is to steal a pair of pistols from a merchant and charge into the rival mob's hangout.
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* SlasherSmile: As he sees Matt gunned down in the street, Tom ''smiles''. He has another psycho grin on his face as he walks into the rival mob's headquarters, seeking revenge.
* SoundOnlyDeath: The camera cuts to Matt sitting at the side of the room when Tom shoots Putty Nose.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The way Tommy's death is revealed at the end-- his corpse is delivered ''standing up'' to his family's front door.
* SoundOnlyDeath: The camera cuts to Matt sitting at the side of the room when Tom shoots Putty Nose.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The way Tommy's death is revealed at the end-- his corpse is delivered ''standing up'' to his family's front door.
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* SlasherSmile: As he sees Matt [[spoiler:Matt]] gunned down in the street, Tom ''smiles''. He has another psycho grin on his face as he walks into the rival mob's headquarters, seeking revenge.
* SoundOnlyDeath: The camera cuts to Matt sitting at the side of the room when Tom shootsPutty Nose.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The wayTommy's [[spoiler:Tommy]]'s death is revealed at the end-- his corpse is delivered ''standing up'' to his family's front door.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The way
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* Foreshadowing: When Putty Nose walks down the street he sees a black cat crossing his path [[spoiler: before Tom and Matt kill him]].
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*AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: Putty Nose begs and pleads to Tom and Mike when they are about to kill him]].
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Gwen. Mae Clarke plays yet another girlfriend, who has a memorable encounter with a grapefruit.
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The "Public Enemy" of the film is Tom Powers (Cagney), a young man living in the projects of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. He starts out with petty crime as a juvenile, but Prohibition offers him a chance to graduate to bootlegging and murder. Crime doesn't pay, though, and Tom, the public enemy, is destined for a bad end.
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The "Public Enemy" of the film is Tom Powers (Cagney), a young man living in the projects of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. He starts out with petty crime as a juvenile, but Prohibition offers him a chance to graduate to bootlegging and murder. Crime doesn't pay, though, and Tom, the public enemy, is destined for a bad end.
end, "the end of every hoodlum."
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The "Public Enemy" of the film is Tom Powers (Cagney), a young man living in the projects of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. He starts out with petty crime as juvenile, but Prohibition offers him a chance to graduate to bootlegging and murder.
Creator/JeanHarlow appears as Gwen, Tom's moll.
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The "Public Enemy" of the film is Tom Powers (Cagney), a young man living in the projects of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. He starts out with petty crime as a juvenile, but Prohibition offers him a chance to graduate to bootlegging and murder.
murder. Crime doesn't pay, though, and Tom, the public enemy, is destined for a bad end.
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* SiblingRivarly: A great deal of the film's conflict is between Tom and Mike.
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* SiblingRivarly: SiblingRivalry: A great deal of the film's conflict is between Tom and Mike.
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* AntiHero: Tom Powers.
* CoolGuns: Tom's revolver.
* FoodSlap: Famously done with a grapefruit.
* FreudianExcuse: It's suggested that Tom grew up to be such a violent {{Jerkass}} because he got spanked a lot when he was a kid.
* FreudianExcuse: It's suggested that Tom grew up to be such a violent {{Jerkass}} because he got spanked a lot when he was a kid.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are two guys named Patrick, but most of the time they're called Paddy Ryan and Pat Burke, so there's no reason to get confused.
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* TragicHero: Arguably Tom. [[spoiler:He dies just as he promises to go straight]].
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* VillainProtagonist: Tom, again.
* WouldHitAGirl: More like shove a grapefruit into a girl's face.
* WouldHitAGirl: More like shove a grapefruit into a girl's face.
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''The Public Enemy'' is a 1931 [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode pre-Code]] Creator/WarnerBros gangster film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman. It's often seen as the film that made Creator/JamesCagney a star. It also typecast him as a tough guy and gangster, and he kept playing roles like that throughout TheThirties.
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''The Public Enemy'' is a 1931 [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] Creator/WarnerBros gangster film directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman. It's often seen as the film that made Creator/JamesCagney a star. It also typecast him as a tough guy and gangster, and he kept playing roles like that throughout TheThirties.
The "Public Enemy" of the film is Tom Powers (Cagney), a young man living inUsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} during the projects of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. He starts out with petty crime as juvenile, but Prohibition whose crimes progress from small-time theft offers him a chance to graduate to bootlegging and murder.
murder.
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* BookEnds: Opens with a message that this film's purpose isn't to glorify gangsters, and closes with the message that 'The Public Enemy' is a problem in society that must be stopped.
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