The Warner Gangsters Collection (The Public Enemy / White Heat / Angels with Dirty Faces / Little Caesar / The Petrified Forest / The Roaring Twenties) |  | Directors: Archie Mayo, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Raoul Walsh, William A. Wellman
Actors: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $68.98
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 20922
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 541 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 3.7
MPN: 67282
ISBN: 1419804995
UPC: 012569672826
EAN: 9781419804991
ASIN: B0006HBV3M
Theatrical Release Date: November 26, 1938
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | The Public Enemy The taut, realistic time capsule of the Prohibition Era. James Cagney's breakthrough role! With 2 minutes of Recovered Footage not seen in over 70 years. White Heat "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" Cagney's psychotic Cody Jarrett sparks this searingic. Angels with Dirty Faces Best Actor James Cagney: New York Film Critics/National Board of Review Awards! Ghetto ki |
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For a knock-out combination of timeless entertainment and vintage studio history, you can't do much better than The Warner Brothers Gangsters Collection. In the 1930s and '40s, Paramount specialized in glossy comedies, MGM popularized lavish musicals, Universal produced signature horror classics, and Fox scored hits with sophisticated dramas. But it was Warner Bros. that generated controversy--if not always box-office profits--with so-called "social problem" films, and that meant gangsters. When viewed in their pre- and post-Prohibition context and in chronological order (Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, 1931; The Petrified Forest, 1936; Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938; The Roaring Twenties, 1939; White Heat, 1949), these six films definitively capture Warners' domination of the mobster genre, and to varying degrees, they all qualify as classics. With its stilted visuals and pulpy plot, Little Caesar remains stuck in the stiff, early-sound era, but it's still a prototypical powerhouse, with Edward G. Robinson's titular "Rico" setting the stage for all screen gangsters to follow. The Public Enemy made James Cagney a star (who can forget him smashing a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face?), and Humphrey Bogart repeats his Broadway success in The Petrified Forest, a stagy adaptation of Robert Sherwood's play, still enjoyable for Bogey's ever-threatening malevolence. Then it's a Cagney triple-threat in Angels (with Pat O'Brien), racketeering in The Roaring Twenties (with Bogart), and especially the jailbird classic White Heat, with a fiery finale and an exit line ("Made it Ma! Top o' the world!") that epitomized Cagney's iconic, tough-guy image. In many ways Cagney was Warner Bros., and this Gangsters Collection pays enduring tribute to him and the important films that forged the studio's rugged reputation. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
CONTAINS: PUBLIC ENEMYPETRIFIED FORESTWHITE HEATROARING TWENTIESANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES LITTLE CASER
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 Gangsters January 23, 2010
M. Bryant (Michigan)
Enjoy the older movies, especially when good acting skills are involved. Haven't viewed all the DVDs yet, but I have enjoyed what I viewed Cagney's confidence shows thru on the screen. Wish i could find a collection of real life gangsters, ie. Al Capone, Dillinger, Babyface Nelson,etc. Not that I glorigfy gangsters, but it interesting to learn what motivated them and what made them think they could get away with their crime wave.
Got to get pass the black and white film and get into the story line of these older movies-most interesting and original!
Excellent October 1, 2009
Olga A. Wilson (OKC,OK)
Great Movies! We had a lot lovely weekends watching these classics movies together with family and friends!!
O.W.
GANGSTERS, GANGSTERS and CAGNEY!!!!! July 12, 2008
Kyle F. Mcgrogan (Paris, Texas)
I haven't watch ALL of them yet, but if you're into classic GANGSTER Noir from the 1930's and 1940's..... THIS IS THE ONE TO HAVE......
Bogart, Robinson, and Cagney..... What more needs to be said, but....
"I'M ON TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!!!!!" The heavies today could take some seriouys lessons in meanace from these boyo's.......
A forest of Thumbs Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
classic gangster films June 30, 2008
Michael J. Mason (toledo ohio)
If you want the classic Gangster films,that are the Genesis of
the Godfather,and Goodfellows and the Sopranos this is the set
for you!
Nice Collection of Classics December 17, 2007
MrRadio897 (Indiana)
This is a great starter set at a very reasonable price. Some of THE essential early gangster films. Highly recommended.
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