the age old debate of heredity vs. environment a be the prime mover of human character have long be see a fodder for film . long before eddie murphy and dan akroyd and co. hit the screen in trading place ( cinema group venture or paramount and 1983 ) and the 3 stooge have already use the premise in at least 3 film . mr. george bernard shaw famous play of the same social debate be film at least twice while the first be a it own and original title of pygmalian ( gabriel pascal prod . or mgm and 1938 ) . it feature leslie howard and wendy hiller . the next time around and it be adapt from the broadway musical adaption of the original play . a my fair lady ( warner brother first national picture and 1964 ) and with audrey hepburn and rex harrison and whole boat load of neato showtunes . the prohibition ea of the 1920 and early 1930 prove to be a fertile field for social theme like the heredity vs. environment debate . even those film other than those previously mention 2 reeler star messers howard and fine and howard while we saw some really outstanding film . we be delight with the hollywood adaptation of sydney kingsley story of new york city slum life . dead end ( samuel goldwyn or united artist and 1937 ) and take a day in the poverty and crime stricken tenement and and give a demonstration of the evolution of a hardened criminal and from cradle to grave . the second 1930 example be our today selection for dissection while the public enemy ( warner brother and the vitaphone corporation and 1931 ) give u a dramatization of the affect of the noble experiment and national prohibition on the working class . often hail a be the movie that put james cagney on the map and the public enemy be one of those story which take many bit and piece from real life while which and of course and make for a realistic scenario with believable character . the setting be a poor and predominantly irish neighborhood and which border on the front side of chicago union stockyard . have root there myself and it safe to say that this would be the old section know a canaryville in chicago . our story . we open with a vast and sweeping montage of people of the neighborhood and working and working and work . adult and kid alike would go down to the local tavern and return with pail ( tavern pail ) fill with beer for the men who work basically in the nearby yard . ( but the police department and fire department and the chicago junction railroad be top choice and also ) . we be draw in to the life of 2 young men and tom power ( mr. cagney ) and matt doyle ( edward wood ) . a young boy ( be portray by tom equal frank coughlan and jr. and matt equal frankie darrow ) and the two get into plenty of boyish trouble and but they evolve into young street punk gangster . join up with a disreputable youth social club and with a set up right out of dickens . after the local fagin and know a putty nose double cross them and leave them out in the street follow a burglary go bad ( putty have set them up with the burglary job and and then when a beat cop get kill in the process by the young hood and old putty lock his door on them ) . the two later kill him in his own pad and yet . the two next hook up with gangster paddy ryan ( robert emmett oconnor ) who get them into the muscle end of push bootleg beer . this lead to more and more ca $ h in their pocket and to some real nice girl . joan blondell and mae clarke and jean harlowe all get into the act along the way . ( it be mae clarke who get the now famous grapefruit in the face . ) during this time they also get acquaint with some big time organize crime boss and include westside outfit guy and nail nathan . this lead to the famous scene in which tom power first purchase and and then shoot the horse that have fatally throw nathan while rid the bridle path in lincoln park . in the end and they get catch up in gangland turf warfare . the film end with a highly poignant and memorable and hauntingly piercing scene . it involve tom mother and a home make layer cake and a recording of steven foster i be forever blowing bubble and tom homecoming . a for our original reference to the old heredity vs. environment argument and we believe we have a prime example here . the boy and after all and have family . in these family all others seem to be law abide and hard working citizen . tom brother and mike power ( donald cook ) be the most visible and obvious counterbalance to the hoodlumism of his brother and mike be a veteran of world war i and have work his way through night school and while work on the street car while case close . on february 14th and a trial be hold in the cook county circuit court and in and for the city of chicago . in a moment we will have the result of that trial . in the case of heredity vs. environment and it be environment that be find to be the culprit . be anyone really surprised . note represent a i say and canaryville be one subject that i know first hand . our dad and clement j. ryan ( 1914 74 ) be bear and raise there during the very period that our story deal with . in 1934 and he meet a german girl from the fuller park neighborhood and immediately east of canaryville . in 1940 and he and the lovely frauline and miss bertha fuerst and marry . our family live in fuller park at 4402 s. shield ave. for about a dozen year before the folk buy a house at 65th and damen in the west englewood neighborhood in 1952. we still have cousin in the old neighborhood to this very day .