 The grapefruit-to-the-face incident from "The Public Enemy" is parodied years later in the 1961 Cagney movie "One, Two, Three" when Cagney threatens Otto (Horst Buchholz) with a half grapefruit but then decides against doing so.The film featured a prologue "apprising the audience that the hoodlums and terrorists of the underworld must be exposed and the glamour ripped from them" and an epilogue "pointing the moral that civilization is on her knees and inquiring loudly as to what is to be done.