Cold-blooded murders, gang wars, and bombings – it was a Hollywood production? No, it was on the streets of Chicago in 1920. The public fascination with real crime and criminals were gloating that helped generate huge profits for Hollywood. What happened on the streets during the 20-ies will spur the popularity of crime and the gangster film genre in 1930 and 1940. So much so that a new classification of the film emerged – Film Noir.

History of crime and gangster films has its roots in silent films in the early 20 th century. However, it was not until the end of 1920 after 30 that these films have become a bit more realistic to the audience. Loud existence of actual gangsters, their crimes, and the amount puplicity they received this film caused Genre flourish. These include such notorious names as Al Capone and John Dillinger. Gangsters have become so widely identified for the general public as presidents. On the television screen, these characters are often portrayed as money hungry, ill and tend to shoot first and ask questions later. Film-viewers loved it!

With this in mind, here are some of the most interesting, exciting and enjoyable early crime and gangster films:

Silent film Underworld was published in 1927, starred George Bancroft as “Bull Weed ‘with Clive Brook as” the Rolls-Royce’. There is a unique twist in the story, as told entirely from the point of view of bandits. Thief crimes, his “Mall ‘(Evelyn Brent), made friends with the running and vicious rival (Fred Kohler), that can go wrong?

Originally projected to be a flop, this film was very successful as a result of strong word of mouth, and even won the Oscar Best Writing, Ben Hecht. More than 80 years later, this picture is viewed by many as the first modern American movie gangster.

Public Enemy, released in 1931, tells the story of two brothers growing up during the ban period. Tom (James Cagney) is a small time hood with a lot of wrong kind of ambition, and Mike (Donald Cook) works hard, goes to school, and draws in the Marines during the Second World War with his brother serving his country, Tom and his life friend Matt (Edward Woods) rise through the ranks of Chicago underworld.

Mike returned to the military to find his brother’s reaping the fruits of the lucrative bootlegging business, until he suffered the pain of war. Mike tries to get Tom to change his life, which only pushes the brothers farther apart. When Tom’s friend Matt was killed, he sets off on a path of revenge, which can only lead to one end. This film was the breakthrough role of James Cagney’s.

In 1931, Little Caesar was in the big screen. Effort towns criminals Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) and Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr) The Mayor of Chicago in search of happiness. Crime offers opportunities for those who will stop at nothing. With a pistol, Rico is able to work the way to the head of the gang, earning himself the nickname – “Little Caesar”. Meanwhile, Joe has taken another path. Choosing to become a dancer, and met a girl named Olga (Glenda Farrell), as a result, relations between the brothers becomes strained and distant. Rico tries to get Joe to forget about Olga and come back and join him. When Joe refuses Rico tells him that he had signed the death sentence itself and Olga.

Concerned that Joe, or Olga might betray him, Rico sets out to kill them both. However, for the first time, he can not pull the trigger. This can be a big mistake – this is the end of Rico? This, according to the American Film Institute to become one of the Top Ten Gangster Films of all time.

One of the most popular in the beginning of crime and gangster films in 1932’s Scarface. Film based on the life of the famous gangster Al Capone. In fact, Capone loved the photo so much he had his own copy. Murder cruelty and gluttonous Antonio Gangster ‘Camonte Tony (Paul Muni) tends to take the racket after the former head of the Big Louis Costillo.

The police suspect Tony was a murderer, having been hired to do the job Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins), but can not make the case against him, because the body was not found. A ruthless ambition Tony quickly becoming a threat Lovo and other crime bosses. Due to constant pressure from the police with suspicion and the danger posed by Lovo and friends, forced the autopsy may not be far away. Enjoy the stunning images of gangsters Guino Rinaldo and Gaffney, George Raft and Boris Karlov.

Howard Hawks Scarface directed and produced by Howard Hughes. The film was considered so cruel and glorify a gangster lifestyle, which, although it was completed in 1931, was released the following year. 1932’s Scarface is in the American film institutes top ten best Gangster films of all time. Today, most movie audiences are familiar with matched 1983 Brian De Palma remake of Scarface Starring Al Pacino, who became a cult.

Warner Bros. produced a number of successful crime and gangster films in the thirties, and 1939’s Roaring Twenties just might be the best of the works of Warner. The story begins immediately after the Second World War gathered in a big hole artillery shell and become friends during the war, returning veterans Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) and Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn) enter society.

Eddie was not able to get it back to my old job as a mechanic, joined neighborhood friend Danny like a trooper, George, a former curator of bar becomes a smuggler, and Lloyd is looking for work as a lawyer. Eddie and Danny use his cabin to build a business park cabins all factory production of alcoholic beverages and hire Lloyd’s will be their lawyer.

Eddie George and illegal cross paths in the hijacking of liquor, and they form the ill-fated partnership. Their empire is thriving, that is, before the war for territory, crossing a double betrayal, love and a great stock market crash threatens to bring everyone down.

This was perhaps the definitive gangster movie of its kind to regenerate itself as a genre of Film Noir. One of the great “Hollywood Gangsters” In Motion Picture History, James Cagney, did not play another gangster role for a decade until the classic white-hot.

Although films about crime and gangsters continue to be done, it will always be difficult, if not impossible, to duplicate the true life of crime and gang productions of the mid-20 th century.