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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.
Aug 5, 2023 · James Cagney as a young hoodlum, sent to reform school. It doesn't reform him, and he's always in and out of prison. We see him in a short phase that he's released after doing a 3 year stint. He's...
Angels With Dirty Faces - (Original Trailer) Childhood friends on opposite sides of the law fight over the future of a street gang in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
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.
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Director Michael Curtiz' crime drama Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) is still poignant nearly a century after its release with its moral parable forewarning the youth against a fatal life of...
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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.
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.
Overview. Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
