67- The Public Enemy -Director:William A. Wellman - Cast:James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell and Donald Cook.

"James Cagney was a great force in American Cinema, and a wonderful actor with a lot of enthusiasm for whatever he did.

He was fearless."

-Clint Eastwood-

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"Cagney always played the tough guys that you loved,you know...that you fell in love with.

-Kevin Spacey-

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"Hell he was a serious actor ! Great to watch,what energy!

-Martin Landau-

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"I was working on a picture called The Aviator, and that's about Howard Hughes in the early days...and particualy ,in the beginning of the film,shooting Hell's Angels which is a film with Jean Harlow etc etc...And as research I showed the actors 2 films.Public Enemy and Wings.Public Enemy was important because I wanted Leo DiCaprio to understand what Howard Hughes was up against.What he had to top when he came into town and he made Scarface.That night we showed Public Enemy in a 35mm little screen room in Los Angeles,and there was some other young actors there,people from the crew,and something happened.These are kids,in their mid-20s,some early 20s...Cagney walks on the screen,and as one of them put it afterwards,modern screen acting Begins.I must say that they reacted to everything in the picture as if it was a film that came out yesterday."

-Martin Scorsese-