Leslie: Why don""t you stay on a while, really see something of it?Bick: Roundup time in my country.Big spring roundup.Leslie: Your country?Bick: Reata.Leslie: Your country, my country.Jordan, you make it sound so far apart.Bick: Maybe - you could come out and see it if you get a chance.(She smiled and coyly hid behind the porch pillar)...I guess I""ll be off real early in the morning, so goodbye.Leslie: I""m really awfully glad you came.And I""m not gonna say goodbye to you here in the moonlight.It would just be too touching.Good night.At about 10:45 pm as Bick restlessly stirred in bed, Leslie walked back home on the green lawn of the bucolic Lynnton estate, and fancifully spun around in her diaphanous pink gown in he grand foyer after attending the nearby Hunt Ball.Nancy kept yelling: "Glen, wake up! Are you there?" The killer answered her: "I""m here," and lunged at her, and chased her back to her home.They both wince during their first physical display of competitive manhood.BackgroundThe Public Enemy(1931) is one of the earliest and best of the gangster films from Warner Bros.Told with inventive, stylized, timeless and darkfilm noirishimages, symbolism and visual poetry, it blends both a pastoral setting with dream-like creatures, fanatical characters, imperiled children during a river journey, a wicked guardian/adult, and salvation and redemption in the form of a old farm woman (a ""fairy godmother"") rather than from a saintly but devilish Bible-totin"" Preacher.The downbeat screenplay was based on Geoffrey Homes"" (a pseudonym - his real name was Daniel Mainwaring) 1946 novelBuild My Gallows High, a book that consciously imitated Dashiell Hammett""sThe Maltese Falcon (1941).