The Night the Ghost Got In | Compare and Contrast
1915: Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops comedies are popular at the movies, featuring a large group of bungling policemen running around and creating mayhem.
1933: A string of movies about hard-boiled gangsters, including Little Caesar (1930), Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932), has given policemen a sense of self-importance.
Today: The trend in police dramas is toward the collection of minute pieces of evidence, in direct contradiction to the brutish destruction wrought by the officers in ‘‘The Night the Ghost Got In.’’
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