Write a history of the American gangster film from Griffiths The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) to Brian De PalmasScarface (1983).

Write a history of the American gangster film from Griffiths The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) to Brian De PalmasScarface (1983). You must cover the big three of the early 30s (Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and Scarface) and discuss the films in relation to real crime figures, film genre, and the Hays Code. You should consider the careers of important actors (Cagney, Robinson, Muni) and directors (Hawks, Wellman).
You may then concentrate on one of the following:
Martin Scorsese and the Gangster film from Mean Streets (1973) to The Departed (2006)
The Godfather films and the Gangster film genre
Brain De Palma and the Scarface (1983) cultural phenomenon

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