On this day in movie history - Safe in Hell (1931):

Safe in Hell

directed by William A. Wellman,

written by Joseph Jackson and Maude Fulton,

based on the play by Houston Branch,

was released in the United States on December 12, 1931.
Music by Leo F. Forbstein.

Cast:

Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray, Ivan F. Simpson, Victor Varconi, Morgan Wallace, Nina Mae McKinney, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Noble Johnson, Cecil Cunningham, Sam Appel, Lionel Belmore, Ted Billings, Rondo Hatton, Kenneth MacDonald, Chris-Pin Martin, Dick Rush, Harry Semels, Harold Waldridge.

On this day in movie history - Confidential (1935):

Confidential

directed by Edward L. Cahn,

written by Wellyn Totman and Olive Cooper,

based on a story by Scott Darling and John Rathmell,

was released in the United States on October 16, 1935.
Music by Abe Meyer.

Cast:

Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, Theodore von Eltz, Warren Hymer, J. Carrol Naish, Herbert Rawlinson, Kane Richmond, Guy Edward Hearn, James P. Burtis, Clay Clement, Reed Howes, Morgan Wallace, Monte Carter, Al Bridge, Earl Eby, Lynton Brent, George Chesebro, Mary Gwynne, Frank Marlowe, Lillian Castle, Donald Kerr, Edwin Argus, Jack Gustin, David Worth, Allen Connor, Tom Brower, Harry Harvey, Sr., Robert Homans, Allan Cavan, Earl Dwire, John Ince, Lee Phelps.

On this day in movie history - The Public Enemy (1931 movie & novel):

The Public Enemy

directed by William A. Wellman,

written by Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Harvey F. Thew,

based on the novel Beer and Blood by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon,

was released in the United States on April 23, 1931.

Music by David Mendoza.

Cast:

James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton, Beryl Mercer, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Murray Kinnell, Mae Clarke, Frank Coghlan Jr., Frankie Darro, Robert Homans, Sam McDaniel, William H. Strauss, Mia Marvin, Lev Abramov, Clark Burroughs, George Daly, Snitz Edwards, Rita Flynn, Dorothy Gee, Douglas Gerrard, Dorothy Gray, Ben Hendricks Jr., Eddie Kane, Arnold Lucy, Harold Minjir, Helen Parrish, Lee Phelps, Russ Powell, Purnell Pratt, Nanci Price, Joe Sawyer, Landers Stevens, Charles Sullivan, Lucille Ward, Adele Watson.

Recommended reading:

The Public Enemy

aka Beer and Blood.

By Kubec Glasmon & John Bright.

Filmed as The Public Enemy (1931), directed by William A. Wellman.

Published by Grosset & Dunlap.

Published 1931.

Hardcover.

ASIN: B0006ALC06

Description:

Photoplay novelization of the famed 1931 James Cagney classic gangster film. THE PUBLIC ENEMY (voted by the American Film Institute as the 8th greatest crime film in American film history) was a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman. based on a never-published novel by two former street thugs: "Beer and Blood" by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon (who had witnessed some of Al Capone’s murderous gang rivalries in Chicago!) A remarkable book in itself, one of those rare Grosset & Dunlap publications (like King Kong).