Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
- Starring:
- James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, (more)
- Director(s):
- Michael Curtiz
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Angels With Dirty Faces
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) 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. Rocky becomes a hero to a gang of teenaged boys (played by Dead End Kids Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Jordan and Bernard Punsley). Father Jerry despairs at this, asking Rocky to lay off so he can keep the kids on the straight and narrow. Then Rocky's crooked business associates George Bancroft and Humphrey Bogart attempt to end Father Jerry's radio campaign against the rackets by killing the priest. Rocky (whose cynical outlook on life has been softened by his romance with true-blue Anne Sheridan) shoots them down and takes it on the lam. Arrested and convicted of murder, Rocky sits smugly on death row, fully intending to go to the chair with a smile on his face. A few moments before the execution, Father Jerry pleads with Rocky to "turn yellow" so that the tenement kids will despise his memory. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 78 mins
Complete Cast of Angels With Dirty Faces
- James Cagney - Rocky Sullivan
- Humphrey Bogart - James Frazier
- George Bancroft - Mac Keefer
- Bobby Jordan - Swing
- Gabriel Dell - Pasty
- Bernard Punsly - Hunky
- Adrian Morris - Blackie
- Marilyn Knowlden - Laury as a Girl
- Steven Darrell - Gangster
- James Farley - Railroad Yard Watchman
- Carlyle Moore, Jr. - Reporter
- Charles Trowbridge - Norton J. White, Press Editor
- Mary Gordon - Mrs. Patrick McGee
- Wilfred Lucas - Police officer
- Wilbur Mack - Croupier
- Claude Wisberg - Hanger-On
- George Sorel - Headwaiter
- Joe Cunningham - Managing Editor
- William Crowell - Whimpering Convict
- William Tracy - Jerry as a Boy
- Oscar O'Shea - Guard Kennedy
- Belle Mitchell - Mrs. Maggione
- Robert E. Homans - Policeman
- John Hamilton - Police Captain
- David Durand - Boy in Poolroom
- Chuck Stubbs - Red
- Harris Berger - Basketball Captain
- Jack C. Smith - Railroad Guard
- Dick Rich - Gangster
- Lane Chandler - Guard
- Ralph Sanford - City Editor, Press
- James Spottswood - Record Editor
- John Dilson - Chronicle Editor
- Jack Mower - Detective
- George Offerman - Adult boy
- Pat O'Brien - Rev. Jerry Connolly
- Ann Sheridan - Laury Ferguson
- Billy Halop - Soapy
- Leo Gorcey - Bim
- Huntz Hall - Crab
- Edward Pawley - Guard Edwards
- Frankie Burke - Rocky (as a boy)
- Eddie Brian - Newsboy
- Jack Goodrich - Reporter (uncredited)
- Lotta Williams - Woman
- Charles Wilson - Buckley, the Police Chief
- William Pawley - Bugs the Gunman
- Frank Coghlan, Jr. - Boy in Poolroom
- Charles Sullivan - Gunman
- John Harron - Sharpies
- Ted Offenbecker - Older Boy in Poolroom
- Joseph Downing - Steve
- A.W. Sweatt - Boy
- Poppy Wilde - Girl at gaming table
- Elliott Sullivan - Police Officer
- Pat O'Malley - Railroad guard
- John Marston - Well Dressed Man
- Harry Hayden - Pharmacist
- Earl Dwire - Priest
- Joe Devlin - Gangster
- Vera Lewis - Soapy's Mother
- Thomas E. Jackson - Press City Editor
- Galan Galt - Policemen at Call-Box
- Ben Hendricks, Jr. - Guard
- William Worthington - Warden
- Billy McClain - Janitor
- Theodore Rand - Gunman
- Brian Burke - Convict
- William Edmunds - Italian Storekeeper
- Jack Perrin - Death Row Guard
- Director(s):
- Michael Curtiz
- Writer(s):
- John Wexley, Rowland Brown, Warren B. Duff
- Producer(s):
- Sam Bischoff
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Suitable for Teens, Questionable for Children)
- 1938 - National Board of Review - Best Acting
- 1938 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Actor
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