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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| James Cagney | ... | Rocky Sullivan | |
| Pat O'Brien | ... | Jerry Connolly | |
| Humphrey Bogart | ... | James Frazier | |
| Ann Sheridan | ... | Laury Martin | |
| George Bancroft | ... | Mac Keefer | |
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The Dead End Kids | ... | (as The 'Dead End' Kids) |
| Billy Halop | ... | Soapy | |
| Bobby Jordan | ... | Swing | |
| Leo Gorcey | ... | Bim | |
| Gabriel Dell | ... | Pasty | |
| Huntz Hall | ... | Crab | |
| Bernard Punsly | ... | Hunky (as Bernard Punsley) | |
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Joe Downing | ... | Steve |
| Edward Pawley | ... | Edwards | |
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Adrian Morris | ... | Blackie |
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Two boyhood friends, Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly have taken different paths in life. After Rocky is arrested he is sent to a juvenile facility and becomes a lifelong tough guy and criminal. Jerry on the other hand goes straight and becomes a Catholic priest ministering to people in the same neighborhood when he and Rocky grew up. When Rocky is released from prison he resumes his criminal lifestyle and becomes much admired by many of the local kids. Worried that the kids will follow Rocky into the criminal world, Jerry works hard to keep them on the straight and narrow. When Rocky is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair, Jerry asks him for one last favor. Written by garykmcd
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dead end kids | juvenile delinquent | priest | tough guy | electric chair |Taglines:
The saga of America's dirty faced kids... And the breaks that life won't give them! See more »Parents Guide:
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26 November 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Jerry, As a Boy: Bulls eye!
William 'Rocky' Sullivan, as a boy: It's as dead as a door nail around here.
Jerry, As a Boy: Yeah.
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Music by Harry Warren
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When Father visits Rocky in prison, a chair for him to sit appears out of nowhere. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Jerry, As a Boy: Bulls eye!
William 'Rocky' Sullivan, as a boy: It's as dead as a door nail around here.
Jerry, As a Boy: Yeah.
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Shuffle Off to Buffalo(1932) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played at the beginning of the pool room scene
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"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