As the period just after the Prohibition era and proliferating crime due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, it made sense that gangster movies took hold of the popular imagination as real-life crime ...
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her ...
Between 1931 and 1932, three blockbuster films captivated audiences and laid down the foundation of the modern gangster movie: Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932).