The three classic gangster movies: Little Caesar (LeRoy, 1930), Public Enemy (Wellman, 1931), and Scarface (Hawks, 1932) usually took place at night in speakeasies, night clubs, elaborate apartments of the gangsters, and back rooms during the time of prohibition. Prohibition is believed to be the lead cause of the development of gangsters throughout the United States and the beginning of inter gang conflict involving territory among enemies. Each classic was said to have been based on a real …showed first 75 words of 1200 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1200 total…made the gangster genre what it is today. References: Shatz, Thomas. Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. Public Enemy Production Notes. Movie Mirrors Index (1983) http://www.san.beck.org/NM/1931/PublicEnemy.html wysiwyg://18/http://www.filmsite.org/publ.html Little Caesar Production Notes Reviewed by Tim Dirks wysiwyg://31/http://www.filmsite.org/littc.html Scarface Production Notes Movie Mirrors Index (1993) http://www.san.beck.org/MM/1932/Scarface.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**