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Crime stories in this genre often highlight or glorify the rise and fall of a particular criminal, gang, bank robber, murderer or lawbreakers in personal power struggles or conflict with law and order figures, an underling or competitive colleague, or a rival gang ....

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.... are usually materialistic, street-smart, immoral, and self-destructive.They rise to power with a tough cruel facade while showing an ambitious desire for success and recognition, but underneath they can express sensitivity and gentleness. The Public Enemy (1931) is one of the earliest gangster films - the second one from Warner Bros. in the thirties. Director William Wellman's. The Public Enemy is toughe, violent and realistic (released before the censorship codes were strictly enforced), although most of the violence is off-screen. The lead character is portrayed as a sexually magnetic, cocky, completely amoral, emotionally brutal, ruthless, and t ....