The Hard-boiled Pulp Renaissance
With rampant unemployment and the lingering after-effects of the First World War, Depression era audiences were eager to be entertained. The motion picture industry responded to that demand with dramatic sound pictures that reflected our recent turbulent past with morality plays that struck a chord with audiences in search of escapism. Edward G. Robinson was Little Caesar (1931), and a young actor named Humphrey Bogart was featured in a string of successful gangster films: The Petrified
