A podcast on the Public Enemy Era (1933-1934). Read More…
Jun 222018
Aug 172017
A page listing all of the essays, timelines and movie reviews on the Public Enemy Era (1933-1935). Read More…
Dec 012016
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Baby Face Nelson (Mickey Rooney) becomes a bank robber after he is released from prison but gradually becomes a trigger happy maniac. The role was ideal for Mickey Rooney, who had spent over a decade playing the relentlessly optimistic teenager Andy Hardy, whose response to every crisis was “Hey gang, let’s put on a show!” However, he had came home from WWII to find that there were few roles for a 5’2” adult with a baby face. Aside from several key events, the rest of the movie seems to have been made up. Read More…
Jan 302014
When outlaws like the Barker-Karpis Gang, the Clyde Barrow Gang, John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd began to attract national attention in 1933, the FBI was an under-funded, amateurish organization. A series of celebrity kidnappings and the massacre of four law enforcement officials in Kansas City in June 1933 led to calls for a national police force, and the FBI would lead the war on crime. In 1934, the many bank robbers would be divided into five nice, clear groups: the family of kidnappers, the lovers on the run, the charming escape artist, the psychotic killer and the misunderstood country boy. A year later, almost none of them were still alive and the FBI was a national institution.
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Dec 092009
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Public Enemies is a fast-paced, flashy look at the brief period in the early 1930s when outlaws roamed the mid-Western United States, robbing banks at will. Read More…
Jul 142008
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The great cast of character actors and exciting shootouts make up for the jumbled history and glorification of the FBI in Dillinger (1973). Read More…