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Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Brothers. It stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The Dead End Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, and George Bancroft. The screenplay was written by John Wexley and Warren Duff based on the story by Rowland Brown. The film chronicles the relationship ...
Angels with Dirty Faces: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan. A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Michael Curtiz
- 1938-11-26
Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly, two New York slum kids, are caught trying to steal pens from a railroad car. Jerry escapes but Rocky is captured and sent to reform school. As adults, Rocky turns to a life of crime, while Jerry becomes a priest in their old neighborhood. Eventually, Rocky is arrested and makes a deal with his crooked lawyer ...
Mac Keefer. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) were brought up in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, Hell's Kitchen....
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- James Cagney
- Michael Curtiz
- Crime, Drama
Angels with Dirty Faces, American gangster film, released in 1938, that is considered a classic of the genre, influencing countless subsequent movies. The story centres on boyhood friends Rocky Sullivan (played by James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien), who take radically different paths as.
- Lee Pfeiffer
In New York, young Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small-time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest.
This compelling drama explores themes of childhood friendship, crime, and redemption, set against the gritty backdrop of urban America. The story follows Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien), two childhood friends whose paths diverge drastically as they grow up.
