gangster film
motion-picture genre
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development of motion pictures
- In history of film: Nontechnical effects of sound
Crime epics, or gangster films, such as Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1931), William Wellman’s Public Enemy (1931), and Howard Hawks’s Scarface (1932), used sound to exploit urban
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production by Warner Brothers
- In Warner Brothers: Films of the 1920s and ’30s: The Jazz Singer and gangster dramas
…company started the craze for gangster films with Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932), and throughout the ’30s it presented films featuring such stars as James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson in gangster roles. Warner Brothers also presented Busby Berkeley’s musical extravaganzas,
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