Tom Powers(詹姆斯·卡格尼 James Cagney 饰)和他的好友Matt Doyle(Edward Woods 饰)从小就在一起厮混,喜欢做些小偷小摸的事情,为此Tom没少挨他哥哥Mike(Donald Cook 饰)的骂,然而Tom死性不改。Tom和Matt两人还结识了Putty Nose(Murray Kinnell 饰),一个帮派成员。两人长大了一些之后,在Putty Nose的怂恿下,两人和另外一个少年一起去一个商店盗窃,却因Putty Nose的出卖,两人险些被捕,另外一个少年则丧门。两人于是转而投靠Paddy Ryan,那时候美国禁酒令开始实行,两人和Paddy做起私酒生意,混得风生水起,还认识了一个帮派头目"Nails" Nathan。后来一战爆发,Mike参军,临走前试图劝Tom退出帮派,Tom没有听。等到Mike退役回家的时候,Tom和Matt已是帮派里面有头有脸的人物,也都有了自己的情人。随着Nathan的意外死亡,帮派火并就要开始了..... 该片获得1931年第四届奥斯卡最佳剧本提名。
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虽然知道自己无法修练,但见左右无事,想着正好调息一番,这也是他多年的习惯。中国人字体This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs. This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal. The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society. The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.