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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 25, 2005
MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country USA
Studio Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• Angels with Dirty Faces
• Battle of City Hall (1938)
• Chicago - Engel mit schmutzigen Gesichtern (1965)
• Angeli con la faccia sporca, Gli (1938)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Gangsters, Teenage, Coming Of Age, Urban, Police, Blackmail, Cult Classic, Murder, Betrayal, Kidnapping, Law
Tagline: Sensational Human Drama... Terrific Thrills And Suspense!
Plot: Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA) directs James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Pat O'Brien in one of the greatest gangster melodramas made during the Hollywood studio era. William "Rocky" Sullivan (Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (O'Brien), partners in mischief as boys, are separated when only Jerry is fast enough to get away from the cops after the duo steals fountain pens from a railroad car. Rocky, refusing to give the name of his friend, is sent off to a reform school where he falls under the influence of criminal elements. The grown-up Rocky's triumphant return to the neighborhood complicates the efforts of Jerry, now a parish priest, to keep a local group of boys (the Dead End Kids) out of trouble. When the gang begins to idolize Rocky, Connolly fears his good works may come to nothing. Meanwhile, Rocky vies for control of the criminal rackets in the neighborhood with mob boss Mac Keefer (George Bancroft) and a corrupt, double-crossing lawyer, James Frazier (Bogart).Curtiz's taut, suspenseful, yet suprisingly sensitive handling of the gritty urban morality play turned ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES into the first unqualified masterpiece of his stunningly prolific career. The archetypal gangster thriller, brimming with the magnetism and explosive dramatic energy supplied by the three male
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| Directed by |
Michael Curtiz
Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, White Christmas |
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| Written by |
| John Wexley
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, City for Conquest, Cornered |
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 | Ann Sheridan
I Was a Male War Bride, The Man Who Came to Dinner, They Drive by Night |
 | James Cagney
Mister Roberts, White Heat, Yankee Doodle Dandy | | George Bancroft
Stagecoach, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, North West Mounted Police | Billy Halop
Dead End, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Boys' Night Out | Bobby Jordan
Dead End, They Made Me a Criminal, A Slight Case of Murder | |
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| Music By |
Max Steiner
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Arsenic and Old Lace |
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