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The Public Enemy (1931): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
The Public Enemy is a 1931 crime, drama film directed by William A. Wellman. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 80 on Metacritic, 7.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 4 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 4 of 77 films from 1931 in our catalog and number 141 of 1,305 crime films.
Billed cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton.
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