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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
It's worth watching that movie just to see Cagney kill a horse. That's the one where he kills the horse, right?
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Yup yup - I was just double-checking the trivia and came up with this tidbit too:
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Originally Posted by IMDB Trivia
- The scene where Tom shoots the horse that threw and killed Sam "Nails" Nathan in a riding accident was based on an actual incident. In 1924, Sam "Nails" Morton, a member of Dion O'Banion's gang, was thrown from his horse and killed while riding in Chicago's Lincoln Park. Other members of the gang, led by Louis "Two Gun" Alteri, kidnapped the horse, took it to the spot where the accident occurred, and shot it dead. Source: Carl Sifakis, "Encyclopedia Of American Crime."
- The machine gun attack on Cagney and his best friend Matt Doyle actually used real machine gun bullets. An expert with the gun stood 15 to 20 feet away from the target, and when Cagney's face disappeared behind the corner of the wall, he opened fire and created that tight circle of machine gun bullets.
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DAMN, they used real bullets in movies back then? Those guys were hardcore!! I'm totally re-watching this tonight.