Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces is a clever gangster story that could've been a serious classic if not for its unrealistic characters. Meet Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly, two down-on their luck youths. Rocky Sullivan is sent to jail as a child... Full review

Angels with Dirty Faces is a clever gangster story that could've been a serious classic if not for its unrealistic characters. Meet Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly, two down-on their luck youths. Rocky Sullivan is sent to jail as a child... Full review

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... Full review

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... Full review

James Cagney was incredible! He holds a priest hostage, the police realize that his gun was empty during the hostage and he says, "Just like what's in between your thick skull, copper!" The execution scene took three days to shoot and... Full review

James Cagney was incredible! He holds a priest hostage, the police realize that his gun was empty during the hostage and he says, "Just like what's in between your thick skull, copper!" The execution scene took three days to shoot and... Full review

It's a great example of the genre, with the typical stage blocking of films at that time. Cagney is charismatic, as always, and it's less shmaltzy than many Hollywood-brand "gangster" films. What's interesting is the inspiration for the film - the... Full review

It's a great example of the genre, with the typical stage blocking of films at that time. Cagney is charismatic, as always, and it's less shmaltzy than many Hollywood-brand "gangster" films. What's interesting is the inspiration for the film - the... Full review

a classic! Today's films are made based upon this and other films from this era. The ending is somewhat predictable but...so what! its still a great movie.... Full review

a classic! Today's films are made based upon this and other films from this era. The ending is somewhat predictable but...so what! its still a great movie.... Full review

This 1938 film release is the epitome of the Warner Bros.....when he left WB in the forties, his films did poorly.... ... Full Review

when he left WB in the forties, his films did poorly....It takes a standard setup for melodrama with routine characters....The story is hackneyed....This 1938 film release is the epitome of the Warner Bros..... ... Full Review

This display of "cowardice" is unparalleled in gangster movies, and the more Cagney begs and screams, the more we're amazed at how he reduces the hero worship of gangsters to nothing. Rocky Sullivan, the character James Cagney plays in Angels , embodies all the qualities we love about bad guys, and that's reflected by the Dead End Kids, the streetwise neighborhood teens who idolize him. ... Full Review

Oh, and Humphrey Bogart makes an appearance as a scheming attorney through into the mix. The underlying social commentary -- how children can turn good or bad depending on how they are raised, a controversial idea in the 1930s -- doesn't get much of a chance to shine, which may be a problem of too many stars, too many precocious child actors, and not enough legroom for all of them to stretch. ... Full Review

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