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...hitherto been neglected. Nick is played by Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of a depraved cherub and a voice which makes everything he says seem violently profane. In Smart Money he does again several of the things he did in Little Caesar but not so many that the role is repetitious. His pal, who dies after Nick has hit him for suggesting that his last bad blonde is a stoolpigeon, is James Cagney (Public Enemy...
...centuries school children have struggled with Caesar's account of his campaign in Gaul without either being able to tell a coherent story of what was Lappening or being in the least aware that what they read was one of the finest and most stirring reports of a soldier on his military activities that has ever been written...
...educational value of familiarity with a civilization which contrasts so strongly with that of the twentieth century. Yale's plan for a required course in classical civilization, if well carried out, would provide a more effective means for attaining this end than the usual disjointed series of readings from Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil...
...heard the morning stars when they sang together. I saw Thor gather in the rainbows to wrap about the dying storm; I walked with Caesar through the three parts of Gaul and I listened to Virgil when he sang his Aeneid when I was told I was to introduce this...
With that anecdote current last week in the film industry, critics wondered if an executive had asserted that The Public Enemy was not going to be anything like Little Caesar. In detail The Public Enemy is nothing like that most successful of gangster pictures, but its central idea is identical-dissection of the criminal mind by reconstruction of one criminal's career. You see James Cagney as a tough boy led into petty thieving. He moves higher, into the bigger business of robbing storage lofts. He rises to become an outstanding rumrunner and a journeyman of homicide until...