Angels with Dirty Faces

19381938
PassedPassed
1h 37min

Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

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Crime Drama Film-Noir

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

Director
- Michael Curtiz
Writers
- John Wexley(screen play)
- Warren Duff(screen play)
- Rowland Brown(from a story by)
Stars

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total

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Angels With Dirty Faces

Angels With Dirty Faces

Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, and Bernard Punsly in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

James Cagney and Pat O'Brien in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

James Cagney, Ann Sheridan in "Angels With Dirty Faces" 1938 Warner

Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, Ann Sheridan, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Ann Sheridan in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

James Cagney and Pat O'Brien in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

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Taglines
- The saga of America's dirty faced kids... And the breaks that life won't give them!
Genres
Certificate
- Passed
Parents guide

Trivia
The Dead End Kids terrorized the set during shooting. They threw other actors off with their ad-libbing, and once cornered co-star Humphrey Bogart and stole his trousers. They didn't figure on James Cagney's street-bred toughness, however. The first time Leo Gorcey pulled an ad-lib on Cagney, the star stiff-armed the young actor right above the nose. From then on the gang behaved.

Goofs
In one of the newspapers headlining an article about Rocky kidnapping Frazier, the word 'Kidnapper' is incorrectly spelled with only one P.

Quotes
[repeated lines]
Rocky Sullivan: Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!

Alternate versions
Also available in a computer colorized version.

Connections
Edited from The Public Enemy (1931)

Soundtracks
In My Merry Oldsmobile
(1905) (uncredited)
Music by Gus Edwards
Lyrics by Vincent Bryan
Revised version sung a cappella by James Cagney and Pat O'Brien

Top review

8/10

A favorite Bogart film by default...

"Angels With Dirty Faces" has become a favorite Bogart film by default; it has been shown so often and has served as the prime source of material for countless satirists and impressionists

It is the familiar tale of two young boys who grow up to be on opposing sides of the fieldone a gangster (James Cagney) and the other a priest, (Pat O'Brien). The story was obviously sentimental Its saving virtues were the performances by the leads, clever and suave, energetic direction by Michael Curtiz, and a good music score by Max Steiner

Bogart had little, and certainly nothing new, to do as he played Cagney's lawyer-turned-nightclub-owner who double-crosses him

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Release date
- November 26, 1938 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Battle of City Hall
Filming locations
- Stage 18, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Production company
- Warner Bros.
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Runtime
- 1h 37min
Color
- Black and White
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1

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