Valentine""s Day Massacre.Rival gangsters are lined up against a wall, as Spats emerges from a vehicle - shoes first.He seeks vengeance on Toothpick Charlie and his gang for informing on him and prompting the police raid on Spats"" speakeasy.There were a number of light-hearted jokes in the film, e.g., (1) the film""s running joke about the American correspondent""s embarrassing loss of his distinctive and respectable English bowler hat three times - it was stolen, left in a cab, and blown off in he wind, and (2) a rattled pedestrian trying to cross a busy village street.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.On the outskirts of the southwestern Texas town, the five ride by a large gathering of village children who are being entertained by toying with scorpions placed in the middle of a caged colony of red fire ants - in reaction shots, the cruel children watch and giggle as the struggling scorpions are tortured and consumed by the swarming ants.