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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 (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) were brought up in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, Hell's Kitchen. While his buddy Rocky gets caught up in racketeering in ...
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- James Cagney
- Michael Curtiz
- Crime, Drama
Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic tough kid from New York's Hell's Kitchen whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to end Rocky's influence.
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. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and charges his former partner, lawyer James Frazier, his ...
Angels with Dirty Faces, American gangster film, released in 1938, that is considered a classic of the genre, influencing countless subsequent movies. Scene from Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), directed by Michael Curtiz. The story centres on boyhood friends Rocky Sullivan (played by James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly ( Pat O’Brien ), who take ...
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Warning: Spoilers. Angels with dirty face is a 1930's Warner Bros gangster film that stars James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan and Pat O'Brien as Jerry Connelly. As the film's opens, young teenager Rocky and Jerry are trouble makers—it wasn't until young Rocky is catch by the police that we see the two characters change.
