The 1930s was the Golden Age of the gangster flick, the period in Hollywood history where almost every cliché and archetype about the cinematic mob life was created. A nation sandwiched between the ...
Raoul Walsh’s style achieved maturity with the magnificent use of deep-focus images and spatial metaphors in this 1939 film, conceived as a nostalgic look back to the brutal Warners gangster films ...
The Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart’s shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney ...