G men

In 1931, James Cagney helped jumpstart the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. In 1935, he waged onscreen war against the nation s public enemies. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in GMen. Emphasis may have changed but elements are the same. GMen builds to a fury of bold escapes, sirenwailing pursuits and frenzied shootouts. Anything worth newspaper space is worth a movie, Warner Bros. executive Lou Edelman declared. Here, a punchy hotoff