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Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Huntz Hall, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, James Cagney, George Bancroft, Bobby Jordan
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Country: USA
Year: 1938
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
IMDB Rating: 7.9 out of 10 (9916 votes)
Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hells Kitchen. Early on, Rocky gets sent to reform school, where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry, who had escaped from the law, goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults, they reunite in the old neighborhood Jerry works with the kids who, like he and Rocky, could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isnt anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks, roughhousing and gunfire ensues.
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Anita de Acosta Keith (21 May 2012)
Powerful movie
Spoilers. Going to the end. Cagney going to the chair. Becoming yellow.Screaming out in agony.When I was going for surgery, I was screaming out ala Cagney's lines. Ithought surely I would die on the operating table. I actually thoughtof Cagney in this movie, beforehand. I did wake up, actually, but Istill have a powerful memory of my fears pre-surgery.Well, Cagney showed those kids what would happen if they continuedtheir lives of punkdom -- showing that crime does not pay.I did like the parts where he shows them he knows all their secrets,and how they find out he wrote the book while they were still in theirbaby carriages. He follows them to their hideout (his old hideout?),and forces them to give him back the money they stole, plus scares theliving daylights out of them with the fake-gun (his hand) in hispocket. When they find out he is a famous gangster, they are suddenlyall hero-worshipful.I did enjoy seeing the lovely Ann Sheridan, whom I saw in King's Rowwith Ronald Reagan and Robert Cummings. She is always a delight, andquite intelligent.I enjoyed seeing Pat O'Brien interact with Cagney. I know they were inother movies together, but I especially enjoyed seeing them in Ragtime,their final one. They were both elderly by that time, but the sparknever left them.I certainly loved Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He was awesome inMidsummer Night's Dream. His gangster movies are an importantstereotype, even though he qualified IRL as a Master Tap Dancer. InAngels with Dirty Faces, he softens up in order to show the delinquentssome type of love and affection that maybe they were missing from theirown families.This movie: 15/10. A fantastic classic. The personality portraits arejust superb.
Lee Eisenberg (21 May 2012)
Run, Cagney! Run!
In the 1930s, Warner Bros. released a series of gangster flicks,usually starring people like James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and anot-yet-famous Humphrey Bogart. Michael Curtiz's "Angels with DirtyFaces" is a prime example. Rocky Sullivan (Cagney) and Jerry Connolly(Pat O'Brien) are boyhood pals grown up who have taken two vastlydissimilar paths in life: Connolly has become a priest, while Sullivan- just out of jail - is continuing on his life of crime.I should say that a lot of the movie comes across as mildly silly.Maybe it's the wisecracking by the Dead End Kids, or the fact that thestreet-smart wise-guy persona in WB movies inspired many of thestudio's satirical cartoons during that era (just listen to BugsBunny's accent). It's just that if the people behind the cameraintended the movie as a warning about delinquency, then I don'tinterpret it as such. Not to mention that the sight of the priest inthe presence of the boys implies pedophilia.Still, the movie remains an important part of cinema history, and Icertainly recommend it. It's important to understand that, far fromsimply being bad people, many of the gangsters during the '30s wereforced into lives of crime due to the Depression. "AWDF" shows thatSullivan is clearly a product of his environment, however ignoble hisactions are. Really good.PS: Michael Curtiz later directed "Casablanca".
(21 May 2012)
watch this with influential children
my dad made me watch this when i was young and now 20 years later i pass watch this movie with my son and it was as good as it was 20 years ago
(20 May 2012)
Good
The most asked query is whether or not the lead character, gangster Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) turns 'yellow' when he is sent to the electric chair. Of course, anyone knowing anything of gangsters, and watching the prior parts of the 97 minute film (not 78, as wrongly noted on the DVD cover), can find no evidence to support such a claim. But, that's precisely why so many ask such a superfluous question- that's what people tend to do when something is so obvious.The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, who later directed Casablanca and Mildred Pierce. He does the usual serviceable job here, but there's no spectacular camera work by cinematographer Sol Polito, nor any memorable scoring by Max Steiner. The screenplay rises above the usual melodrama, even though it has some simplistic moments, and moves very quickly (almost too quickly, at times), setting up the bulk of the film's characters' motivations in less than nine minutes. It was written by Rowland Brown, John Wexley, Warren Duff, Ben Hecht, and Charles MacArthur. But, the obvious weak links are with the characters of Laury and the Kids. Like most love tales, this one is wedged oddly into this tale, and is quite underdeveloped. And the scenes with the Kids seem forced and unreal, for they are never developed as characters, and exist merely as symbols. The film veers towards being a cheap comedy in those moments. Had both of those angles been dropped, and more development of the Rocky-Jerry relationship been pursued the film would have been better. Of course, the film works mainly because of Cagney's bravura performance. It's as good as in other films, and contrasts with O'Brien's portrayal of the priest. Cagney got a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance- the first of his career (he would win a few years later with Yankee Doodle Dandy), and it was well deserved, and even won the New York Film Critics Award for best actor.
pderocco (19 May 2012)
Archetypes without cliches
It's awfully hard to tell a story of archetypal characters withoutdescending into stock cliches, but this movie does it deftly. In fact, itisn't just the characters that embody symbols deeply embedded in ourpsyches, but the surroundings too: the tenement, the church, the poolhall,the speakeasy, the jail, the electric chair. In this case, the starknessofthe symbols actually heightens the power of the story. This is definitelyinmy all-time top ten.
(19 May 2012)
Only Cagney could make Bogey sweat
Michael Curtiz' "Angels with Dirty Faces" is one of those movies (like his "Casablanca" and "Mildred Pierce") in which the planets and stars were perfectly aligned. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, and the Dead End Kids are completely believeable. In fact, even the actors who played the young Cagney and O'Brien were right on.But it is Curtiz' direction that runs the show. Curtiz moves seamlessly from the crowded streets, to the claustrophobic tenements, to the glitzy gambling joints. And his mastery of shadow and light cannot be overstated, as historian Dana Polan points out in his insightful commentary. All these elements combine to create a great movie, and not just a great gangster movie. The complex relationships between Rocky Sullivan, the kids, and Fadda Jerry (O'Brien)--and the astounding ending to the film--make it as poignant and widely-appealing as any other movie of its time or any other time.
Neil Doyle (18 May 2012)
Cagney and O'Brien at their finest...
You can't miss with Michael Curtiz at the helm, Max Steiner doing themusic, Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart in supporting roles, the DeadEnd Kids for "the kids", Pat O'Brien as a priest fighting ganglandcrime, and James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan, doing one of his bestgangster impersonations.It's a tough crime drama with a tug of war between O'Brien and Cagney,boyhood pals, who find themselves reunited twenty years later whenCagney's out of prison and O'Brien's a priest. It's O'Brien's missionto try to save the "angels with dirty faces" from being filled withhero worship for Cagney's pugnacious villainy.The climactic scene has Cagney headed for the electric chair withO'Brien requesting that he show some streak of cowardice so the boyswill stop using him as a role model for a life of crime.Once again, poor Bogart ends up writhing around on the floor riddledwith bullets after he and George Bancroft double-cross Cagney. It's thetypical Warner crime melodrama done with their usual finesse and wellworth seeing if you're a fan of Cagney, O'Brien and Bogart--or theyoung Ann Sheridan.
(18 May 2012)
What do ya hear,what do ya say!
I first saw this movie when I was about 12,I was just like the deadend kidsI loved Rocky Sullivan and I was crushed when Rocky went to the chair and turned Yellow! It was the first time a ending broke my heart!I did not want to believethat Rocky would turn yellow,but I was not quite sure if he was faking because of the deadend kids! Stll not sure!
Spuzzlightyear (12 May 2012)
Cagney vs. The Dead End Kids!
One of the greatest films of Cagney's film career, and the film thatunfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your gag reflexes)introduced us to the Dead End Kids! James Cagney is a career criminal,who, immediately after getting out of the clink, meets up with hisformer partner in crime (Pat O'Brien!), who of course is a priest nowand loathes the life Cagney leads. Cagney is also preoccupied with abunch of no-good kids who of course idolize him. Seeing this, O'Brienthinks Cagney should lead the kids to good. But Cagney is too busygetting even with his old business cronies (Humphrey Bogart!).This film is a lot fun, most especially watching Bogey and Cagney onthe screen together. For those rather uninitiated with the career ofBogart (eg, just seen Casablanca and the Sam Spade movies), this filmmay come as a revelation to you, as he plays a cretinous heel here. AndCagney? Ahhh, what's not to like? He's flawless here, (well, except hiscurious gun usage). As for the Dead End Kids, I liked them here, ratherinteresting that Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall almost are in the backgroundhere, with their leadership of the group not yet realized.
angry127 (12 May 2012)
Crime and Punishment
After seeing more modern movies (Scarface, Goodfellas) we see that theygot a lot of their inspirations from Studio Era crime movies. Morespecifically, Angels with Dirty Faces sticks out.We are treated to Cagney playing a criminal in and out of jail. Heseems almost born for this role which is probably which he plays it inmany movies. The film moves very quickly and uses a lot of slidingcamera shots to engage the audience. It almost looks as though it wasfilmed today with some of the sweeping shots through the city.The main message we get from the story is that crime does not pay. Wefollow Cagney and not the priest throughout the movie, so we empathizewith him. This makes the blow at the end more harsh. The end of themovie does send a sparkle of possible good to come from the followinggenerations, so we are somewhat at piece.Highly recommended for anyone with a taste in American cinema.
parrish15 (06 May 2012)
Time for a remake
One the my all-time favorites growing up as a kid! Even today thisending is such a conversation piece of why? Back then when it comesdown to it our troubles of youth and how we progress as adults has notchanged much in today's society.Such as the Robert Frost poem "Road notTaken" you get to see the effects of two different youths and how theyprogress to adulthood.The role Of Rocky Sullivan people must see inevery neighborhood,how could you not like this guy? Father Connollycharacter could be changed to a schoolteacher to show how one's pathcould make the difference,especially in the end. I think an updatedremake would make kids think about right from wrong and who to chooseas a role model.
ironside (05 May 2012)
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 ofmaterial for countless satirists and impressionists It is the familiar tale of two young boys who grow up to be on opposingsides of the fieldÂone a gangster (James Cagney) and the other apriest, (Pat O'Brien). The story was obviously sentimental Its savingvirtues were the performances by the leads, clever and suave, energeticdirection by Michael Curtiz, and a good music score by Max Steiner Bogart had little, and certainly nothing new, to do as he playedCagney's lawyer-turned-nightclub-owner who double-crosses himÂ
(04 May 2012)
SYMPATHETIC BUT WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK - AVERAGE TRANSFER
A couple of Hell's Kitchen hell raisers - Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) part company after being sent to reform school in Michael Curtiz's classic "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938). For Rocky, the years of meditation transform him into a first class criminal with a bitter grudge and destiny to fulfill. For Jerry, the prospect of becoming a career criminal is enough to scare him straight into the priesthood. The years pass and Rocky and Jerry are once more reunited; this time in their old neighborhood but on opposite sides of the law. In a sort of Father Flannigan twist, Jerry desires to have a positive impact on the lives of children who, like his former self, are on the fast track to nowhere. Rocky resurfaces as a ghetto gangster, exploiting Jerry's acquired goodness to suit his own end. Ann Sheridan surfaces thrillingly and to great effect as Rocky's wickedly playful girl Friday, Laury Ferguson. The Dead End Kids, a troop of street urchins who became model citizens through celluloid worship and pop culture are in this one to - playing themselves for either saintly salvation or sinful self-destruction. Rapid and gunfire results. Director, Curtiz is in top form with this meshing of the light and the terrorized, inserting a winning combination of action and comedy that is engaging throughout.Warner's DVD is not as successful. The gray scale is often dark or seemingly underexposed. Though it is, at times, nicely balanced, the image quality is rather inconsistent. Film grain and age related artifacts are spread throughout the print material which shows signs of various source materials being incorporated. Fine details are often lost in darker scenes. Whites are generally not clean, though at times they can be. Flickering and shimmering occurs during several key scenes. The audio is adequately balanced in mono. A featurette, commentary by historian Dana Polan and Leonard Maltin's hosting of "Warner's A Night At The Movies" are the extras you'll find. Polan's audio is a bit flat and disengaged from the material. Maltin's segment seems somewhat more rushed than on other Warner discs. This film comes highly recommended for content. The video presentation is better than average but far from perfect.
dwpollar (04 May 2012)
Well-done gangster who'll always be a gangster movie...
1st watched 5/6/2007 - 7 out of 10(Dir-Michael Curtiz): Well-donegangster who'll always be a gangster movie with James Cagney playing aboy who gets caught trying to steal cases of ball point pens and endsup staying in jail for many years after(not for the same offense). Hethen learns how to better the system and never stays in for very long.His friend and partner in the original crime becomes a priest in theirold neighborhood and tries to keep the current kids out of trouble sothey won't turn out like he and his partner did. The gang in theneighborhood(played by the future Bowery boys) initially look atCagney's character as a hero to them(always getting out of jail scotfree), but his priest friend hopes that will end. His efforts aren'tworking very well, so he decides to go against him publicly afterCagney pulls the boys into his own problems by making them hide some ofhis "hot" money. This movie is really about their friendship and how itstays despite their issues against each other. Pat O'Brien, as thepriest, sticks with Cagney all the way to the very end, trying to gethim to change his ways. Cagney is charismatic and watchable and therest of the cast play their characters well in this drama with a heart.It's a good watchable movie experience overall although it doesn't havethe grit of more modern fare, but the story keeps you interested allthe way thru.
juice2305 (01 May 2012)
One of the best Ever!!!
I will never forget the first time i saw this movie with my father. I must have been 9 or 10 yrs old and i absolutly loved it. Well i'm almost 48 now and i still absolutly love it. It is number 2 on my all time favorites list, 2nd only to The Towering Inferno. It's about 2 childhood friends, one who grows up to be a priest and the other grows up to be a big time Gangster. And they are played excellently by James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. This movie made me love the Gangster flicks. There is not a whole lot of shooting and killing in it, it's mostly about the charactors and the story (with one good shoot out near the end) both of which are superb. I don't care what nobody thinks, i would love to have a friend like Rocky Sullivan. Humphrey Bogart,Ann Sheridian and the Dead End Kids are also very good. Excellent movie and i would love to see it remade in today's society, with the right actors and the right director it could be really good. Wcp!
John T. Ryan (01 May 2012)
Setting the Bar higher in the Juvenile Delinquent sub-genre of the Gangster Film. The One they're all compared to.
Sidney Kingsley's socially conscious drama DEAD END played on Broadwayfrom October 1935 until June of 1937 for a total of 687 performances.The powerful play didn't go unnoticed on the West Coast, so the screenrights were purchased post haste by Samuel Goldwyn and the screenadaptation of DEAD END (1937) was released for all the World to view.But it wasn't just the screen rights that were taken from Broadway toTinsel Town, for the group of young toughs, who many thought wereactual delinquents from the Slums got Movie Contracts from Mr.Goldwyn.So, Billy Hallop, Leo Gorcey, Hunyz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Jordanand Bernard Punsly headed west to fame and fortune on the SilverScreen. Also making the trek West was Marjorie Main in order that shemight reprise her role as Mrs. Martin, mother of "Baby Face".Once DEAD END was completed, Mr. Goldwyn sold the contracts of theyoung guys to Jack Warner, Studio Chief of his namesake company. Oncethere, they were put to work on some rather serious socially consciousmovies like THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL, CRIME SCHOOL, HELL'S KITCHEN andwith James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Anne Sheridan, ANGELS WITH DIRTYFACES.And so we have today's victim, which probably has some of the greatestsingle scenes and characters in film history. Surely it may well be thequintessential Gangster-Young Toughs movie from the Golden Era of theSound Film (formerly called "Talkies".) I mean this ANGELS WITH DIRTYFACES seemingly has just about anything you could want. We have anopening scene in the "old Neighborhood" where the principal charactersof Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Fr. Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien)had spent their youth as tough, street guys. The Juveniles playing theyoung men are Rocky (young Cagney look-alike, Frankie Burke) and Fr.Connelly (William Tracy).The pivotal incident occurs when the two young friends are walking(trespassing) through the Train Yards when they happen on some box carhas cases of fountain pens, which they decide to pilfer. The RailroadsDicks come along, and in attempting to flee the scene, young Rocky getscaught and sent to Reform School; but refuses to implicate Jerry onanyone else.We're next treated to a montage of Rocky's headlines and hold-ups.Meanwhile, Jerry winds up going to the Seminary to study for thePriesthood.Well, years pass and we have a great reunion, back in the old 'hood"where one man is now the Parish Priest, the other an up and comingex-con and racketeer. Oh, yeah I almost forgot to mention! AnneSheridan is there; her character also was a child of the oldstompin'grounds.We're not going to elaborate on the re-cap of the story any more. Weall know the story, more or less. The two friends from the same oldneighborhood, running together as kids and one becomes a Priest, theother a Hood. One ends up paying the price, but can do a great serviceto the other and the current kids in the area. Could this be just atrifle cliché ridden? It seems that way because this was the one moviethat set the standards and invented the complex situations that were sowidely imitated.And that friends adds up to a one of a kind, singular, masterpiece ofthe cinematic arts and a huge slice of what America and its people arereally all about.
JoeKarlosi (29 April 2012)
Cagney in great form ****
(possible spoilers):James Cagney really struts his stuff in this one, and all his classic"caricature" type movements and traits are on vivid display here. Iloved the interplay between Cagney and Humphrey Bogart (in a supportingrole); also intriguing was the relationship between the now-grown RockySullivan (that's Cagney's character) and the straight-laced Jerry(played by Pat O'Brien), who was the childhood friend of Rocky andpartner in mischief who wound up spending his adulthood as a priestwhile his companion never was able to go completely straight.The Dead End Kids tended to get on my nerves at times, but I guessthat's partly what they're supposed to do, as street punks who idolizethe legendary Sullivan and want to follow in his infamous footsteps. Just want to mention that I thought the ending - with Cagney's changeof demeanor in the electric chair and the resulting disappointment ofthe kids who worshipped him - was a great cinematic moment by directorMichael Curtiz. People have debated whether or not Cagney is supposedto be genuinely afraid at the end or just putting on a show for thekids to learn something from. I'm of the opinion that he was actingcowardly, and that he did it primarily as a favor to his longtimefriend, Father Pat O'Brien. In the process he was able to help theyoung gang of thugs re-think their futures as well.
perfectbond (29 April 2012)
Great film-noir
This film was a pure treat for me. It starred two of my all-time favoriteactors, James Cagney and the incomparable Humphrey Bogart. Bogart at thisstage of his career was still playing the 'gangster' almost exclusively buthe is still great in this film. Of course, Angels with Dirty Faces belongsto James Cagney's Rocky Sullivan. His conflict whether to reform at thebehest of boyhood chum Father Connelly (O'Brien) for the benefit of the kidsor to rake in the cash as a hoodlum in league with backstabbing thieves ledby Frazier (Bogart) provides great dramatic tension. The ending whereSullivan must decide whether or not to give up the "one thing he has left"is rightly viewed as one of the most dramatic death row scenes ever filmed.Memorable film, 8/10.
bkoganbing (26 April 2012)
Say A Prayer For A Kid Who Couldn't Run As Fast
Angels With Dirty Faces is a milestone film for the careers of bothJames Cagney and Pat O'Brien. Up to now they had been successfullyteamed by Warner Brothers in a whole series of buddy films. In fact itis my contention that they popularized that particular genre. Here theyare childhood friends, but as adults, adversaries due to the course inlife they took.Cagney came off suspension from Warner Brothers and agreed to do thisfilm as his comeback of sorts. At first glance it seems just likeanother gangster flick, just what Cagney had been trying to get awayfrom. But by force of personality and a superior script, Cagney turnedthe role of Rocky Sullivan into a classic and got his first AcademyAward nomination.As for O'Brien, this was his first clerical role. Usually O'Brien isthe fast talking manager, press agent,etc. When playing a priest PatO'Brien slows the pace of the dialog down to a crawl and it works. Hegreatly expanded his range here and there were many other classicclerical roles to come.Cagney's a notorious gangster who's just been let out of prison after athree year stretch, taking a fall for his crooked attorney, HumphreyBogart. Bogart was supposed to guard his $100,000.00 Cagney hadsquirreled away from illegal activities in the Twenties. Bogart's got anew partner now in George Bancroft and neither of them wants to cutCagney in on anything.Let's just say that Cagney in the usual Cagney fashion makes both ofthem wish they'd played it on the square.Father O'Brien's concern is that notorious criminal Cagney is becominga hero to some of the neighborhood kids in his parish. But he alsocan't forget that the two of them had been boyhood pals and thatCagney's first brush with the law was over a petty crime that O'Brienwas equally guilty of. This is shown in a small prologue with threeplayers portraying, Cagney, O'Brien, and neighborhood girl Ann Sheridanas kids.Young Frankie Burke is astounding in his portrayal of the young Cagney.He has him down perfectly, he becomes Cagney. Angels With Dirty Facesis worth watching for him alone.Those other juvenile actors with Warner Brothers at the time, The DeadEnd Kids, play the kids from the parish who come to idolize andidealize Cagney. O'Brien has one tough time trying to make them seethat Cagney's life is not the way to go in life.Angels With Dirty Faces still has a powerful message for today and filmaficionados should see it because of that and because it was a keyturning point in the careers of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
timomouse (26 April 2012)
The light of a marathon
OK, I came into this after seeing The Public Enemy and White Heat in aGangster marathon. Now, considering the excellence of these two films, Ithought myself in for a let down. I was wrong. Like all the films of theera, it starts with the cutscene of twenty years before. For once, this isessential, as it allows us to truly understand the relationships in thefilm. We race to Cagney and the Dead End Kids' relationship, culminatinginhumourous scenes such as the basketball match. We then rush to hisexecution. The crime preceding this is, unfortunately, not as memorable asit should be, but it is eclipsed by the execution. The defiance followedbycowardice is a brilliant interpolation of the defiance of the criminal,butwith a moral ending.Cagney steals the show. His performance is perfect, and he commandseveryscene, as if he were god. Whilst the ending takes the moral highground,therelationship between Cagney and the dead end kids means that it works(foronce).
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