Thompson machine gun shootout 1931

The Purple Gangs Abe Axler (Cagney) and Killer Burke, shoot it out with Detroit Police! Holy carbine!!!

[@HistoryGuru1234]

Now this is what I want to see in gangster movies! Guns, guns and guns! Thank you for posting this video!

[@AlejandroP1980s]

Gansters aren't that thoughtfulness only veterans

[@bradhedgehog12]

But it seems the cops was doing most of the Thompson Gun Firing.

[@VickStarkiller]

I want Quentin Tarantino to do a 1930s gangster flick like this with Tommy gun shootouts and everything. It would be awesome.

[@gunnarthefeisty]

I think that would be a marvelous final film for him!

[@natemyers4946]

I'm surprised he hasn't done one at this point

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

he'll just make it unwatchable with a bunch of hipster cant. best to get a real tribute who understand how to do it right, and tarantino is too busy making historical revisionist 70s exploitation style movies

[@amazinggman4353]

Fun fact, hollywood hired marksmen to shoot real ammo at the actors cause most directors and shit hated the way blanks looked. james cagey was almost cut down by a thompson and was like yup bulshit no more and helped found the SAG

[@howiesmith1504]

This clip is from "The Picture Snatcher" (1933). Cagney plays a former gangster who becomes a newspaper photographer. The bad guy is played by character actor Ralf Haralde from Pittsburgh.

[@TristanH90]

Thanks! Was frustrated trying to figure out the movie name!

[@noshirm6285]

Blessed be the one who posts the entire movie.

[@kmterpin]

A looooong time Cagney fan, yet couldn’t quite pinpoint what film this clip was from until he took out the camera-then I knew it was ‘Picture Snatcher’📸

[@sackheadjones5407]

It must've been terrifying to shoot scenes like this, quite literally.

[@mebanaanyes]

Heh.. shoot

[@theactioneffect]

Can anybody tell what that large light machine gun with the protective shield mounted on it is? I think the best view of it is at 1:35

[@MrRolyat98]

I think it's s BAR with a defensive shield added. Probably just got the movie.

[@vks_productions]

This reply is three years too late, but it's the aircraft version of a Lewis light machine-gun.

[@bradhedgehog12]

@@MrRolyat98 hmm. Ok

[@0331longrifle]

It’s a Vickers Machine gun, BAR’s have a 20rd magazine loaded from the bottom and Lewis’s had drum magazines loaded from the top

[@yasminara5142]

@@MrRolyat98 no it's a lewis

[@buffalopatriot]

The big cop is Robert Emmett O'Connor. A great character actor. The Public Enemy, A Night At The Opera and many other films.

[@KOBUN40]

Sure, I believe ya. But my Tommy gun don't.

[@bradhedgehog12]

Neither does mine

[@DSMTheEditor]

I tell ya what I'm gonna give you, Snakes!

[@quickkill730]

3:46 instagram that shit!!!

[@sameboi944]

The police in this video replicate me in Nerf wars PERFECTLY

[@PRPWR]

BRO IS CRAZY HOW THEY WERE ALL REAL BULLETS!!

[@theactioneffect]

Watch the guy dry-fire that .45 right in cagney's gut at 0:23

[@jonnyjetstreamer997]

Good catch!

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

Locked but not loaded 🤣

[@blitzkrieg9408]

I was fixin to say, glad there weren’t any blanks in it😂

[@Owen-bo4qy]

If you are wondering how the bullet hits look so real...... they are! That's why these movies rock. Real Machinegunners off camera shooting holes in things.😀

[@ricardoabreu4997]

Love the sounds

[@FutureLaugh]

a lot of trust right there, one moment you accuse cagney of being a stool pigeon the next youre letting him hold a rod. you could have easily smoked you

[@samiam9538]

What's really terrifying is they used REAL BULLETS in those scenes as they didn't have squibs back in the 30's!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@milestone_achiever4634]

When did the silent film era end??

[@brainchopper]

Essentially the industry transition to sound (from silent) happened between 1927 and 1929.

[@bradhedgehog12]

So what movie is this shootout part.

[@brainchopper]

"The Picture Snatcher"

[@bradhedgehog12]

@@brainchopper ok

[@NYRM1974]

James Cagney used New York City MMA to kick out the gun and get the picture.

[@nameless5512]

I dunno why, but at 0:36 I always interpreted the first three shots as words. *”Go, Get, SCRAM!”*

[@cpvideocrations2616]

What’s that movie from?

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

This movie is actually from 1933.

[@mebanaanyes]

whats the movie?

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

@@mebanaanyes PICTURE SNATCHER

[@MaxKongo]

fun fact they used to use real bullets in scenes.

[@bradhedgehog12]

They did? I didn’t know.

[@aaronbrown771]

What's the name of the movie?

[@thebaconator.3867]

what film is this someone please tage me and tell me every time i google it cant find the name

[@brainchopper]

The movie is "The Picture Snatcher"

[@sidvicious9586]

what this movie?

[@brainchopper]

"The Picture Snatcher".

[@teresanavarro7545]

THIS IS MEXICO EVERY DAY FELLOWS. ...🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

[@yasminara5142]

U live in Jalisco? Cjng always picks fights with anyone they see

[@michaelmutphy9077]

Thy used live mmo in some of those scenes.

[@elchoya8770]

todays shootouts are garbage.half the time as I sometimes notice,the gunfire out of rifles and machine guns are animated,where the effects department digitally put flashes in front of the barrels.cant even afford blanks.bring sam Peckinpah back!

[@mebanaanyes]

Well it's a bit safer than this don't ya think..?

[@surfboardjoker6299]

@@mebanaanyes if i were acting i'd rather use blanks. If i die doing a scene than i still felt cool doing it lmao

[@natemyers4946]

2:35 cop was letting that boy rip

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Ralph Bellamy !

[@milestone_achiever4634]

The cop that was with the woman looks like Bud Jamison from the Three Stooges 🤩

[@rocketnerd7763]

When you need to take the enemy flag

[@joshuasmith5867]

I did it

[@gregorydavidson9320]

What is the name of this movie?