James Cagney was the original movie tough guy. 

In his time, he was the star of various gangster classics, including Angels With Dirty Faces and White Heat, but 1931’s The Public Enemy was the first and arguably best.  It became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period.

Cagney plays a bootlegger who rises in the criminal underworld during the prohibition era. The movie’s most famous scene has Cagney’s gangster tire of his moll girlfriend’s nagging and suddenly thrust a grapefruit into her face at the breakfast table to shut her up. The ending also packs a shock: Cagney’s dead body is trussed up and delivered on his mother’s doorstep – as if to reinforce the message crime does not pay!

This is a US-one sheet poster from a 1950s re-release, It can be found for sale here.