Angels with Dirty Faces

Year:

1938

Duration:

97 min

Genres:

Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller

IMDB rate:

8

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1938-11-26

Filming Locations: Sing Sing Penitentiary - 354 Hunter Street, Ossining, New York, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

The 'Dead End' Kids

James Cagney

Rocky Sullivan

Pat O'Brien

Jerry Connolly

Humphrey Bogart

James Frazier

Ann Sheridan

Laury Ferguson

George Bancroft

Mac Keefer

Billy Halop

Soapy

Bobby Jordan

Swing

Leo Gorcey

Bim

Gabriel Dell

Pasty

Huntz Hall

Crab

Bernard Punsly

Hunky (as Bernard Punsley)

Joe Downing

Steve

Edward Pawley

Edwards

Adrian Morris

Blackie

Frankie Burke

Rocky - as a Boy

William Tracy

Jerry - as a Boy (as William Tracey)

Marilyn Knowlden

Laury - as a Child

The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir

(as St. Brendan's Church Choir)

Harris Berger

Basketball Captain (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

Convict (uncredited)

Edwin Brian

Newsboy (uncredited)

Sonny Bupp

Boy (uncredited)

Brian Burke

Convict (uncredited)

Gary Carthew

Church Basketball Team Player (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

Guard (uncredited)

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Boy in Pool Room (uncredited)

Bill Cohee

Church Basketball Team Player (uncredited)

William Crowell

Whimpering Convict (uncredited)

Joe Cunningham

Managing Editor (uncredited)

Steve Darrell

Gangster (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

Gangster (uncredited)

John Dilson

Chronicle Editor (uncredited)

Mike Donovan

Death Row Guard (uncredited)

David Durand

Boy in Pool Room (uncredited)

Earl Dwire

Priest (uncredited)

William Edmunds

Italian Storekeeper (uncredited)

Jack Egger

Boy (uncredited)

Jim Farley

Railroad Yard Watchman (uncredited)

Galan Galt

Policeman (uncredited)

Bud Geary

Death Row Guard (uncredited)

Jack A. Goodrich

Reporter (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

Mrs. Patrick McGee (uncredited)

Earl Gunn

Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Hagney

Sharpie (uncredited)

John Hamilton

Police Captain (uncredited)

John Harron

Sharpie (uncredited)

Harry Hayden

Pharmacist (uncredited)

Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian

Convict (uncredited)

Ben Hendricks Jr.

Guard (uncredited)

Al Hill

(uncredited)

Robert Homans

Policeman (uncredited)

Thomas E. Jackson

Press City Editor (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Kowalski

Boy (uncredited)

Vera Lewis

Soapy's Mother (uncredited)

Al Lloyd

Reporter (uncredited)

Alexander Lockwood

Reporter (uncredited)

Vince Lombardi

Boy (uncredited)

Wilfred Lucas

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Le Val Lund Jr.

Church Basketball Team Player (uncredited)

Wilbur Mack

Croupier (uncredited)

Charles Marsh

Reporter (uncredited)

John Marston

Well-Dressed Man (uncredited)

Bibby Mayer

Church Basketball Team Player (uncredited)

Billy McClain

Janitor (uncredited)

Roger McGee

Boy (uncredited)

Belle Mitchell

Mrs. Maggione (uncredited)

Carlyle Moore Jr.

Reporter (uncredited)

George Mori

(uncredited)

Jack Mower

Detective (uncredited)

Spec O'Donnell

Inquisitive Youth in Pool Room (uncredited)

Pat O'Malley

Railroad Guard (uncredited)

Oscar O'Shea

Kennedy (uncredited)

George Offerman Jr.

Older Boy (uncredited)

Emory Parnell

Officer McMann (uncredited)

William Pawley

Bugs (uncredited)

Jack Perrin

Death Row Guard (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Detective (uncredited)

Theodore Rand

Gunman #3 (uncredited)

Dick Rich

Gangster (uncredited)

Ralph Sanford

Policeman on El Toro Club Phone (uncredited)

Jeffrey Sayre

Reporter (uncredited)

Jack C. Smith

Railroad Guard (uncredited)

George Sorel

Headwaiter (uncredited)

James Spottswood

'Record' Editor (uncredited)

Michael Stark

Death Row Guard (uncredited)

Chuck Stubbs

Red (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

Ed (uncredited)

Elliott Sullivan

Cop (uncredited)

A.W. Sweatt

Boy (uncredited)

Eddie Syracuse

Maggione Boy (uncredited)

George Taylor

Convict (uncredited)

Charles Trowbridge

Norton J. White (uncredited)

Norman Wallace

Church Basketball Team Player (uncredited)

Dick Wessel

Man in Pool Room Slugged by Father Connelly (uncredited)

Leo White

Man with Baby (uncredited)

Poppy Wilde

Girl at Gaming Table (uncredited)

Lottie Williams

Onlooker at Drugstore (uncredited)

Charles C. Wilson

Police Lieutenant Buckley (uncredited)

Claude Wisberg

Hanger-on in Pool Room (uncredited)

Dan Wolheim

Convict (uncredited)

William Worthington

Warden (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

To play Rocky, James Cagney drew on his memories of growing up in New York's Yorkville, a tough ethnic neighborhood on the upper east side, just south of Spanish Harlem.. His main inspiration was a drug-addicted pimp who stood on a street corner all day hitching his trousers, twitching his neck, and repeating, "Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!" Those mannerisms came back to haunt Cagney. He later wrote in his autobiography, "I did those gestures maybe six times in the picture. That was over thirty years ago - and the impressionists have been doing me doing him ever since."

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Some segments of this movie were remade and modified for the feature film Home Alone (1990) and its sequel. In the two movies, Kevin watches them as "Angels with Filthy Souls" and "Angels with Even Filthier Souls".

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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 22, 1939 with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien reprising their film roles.

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Goofs

Towards the end of the film, during the scene where Rocky is shooting it out with the police in the warehouse, watch the "concrete" pillar Rocky has taken cover behind. Seconds before a bullet impact appears on the pillar, a close up reveals a slight round indentation surrounded by a lighter coloring of paint, exactly where the bullet squib, which has been embedded in the pillar, explodes moments later. An immediate cut to Rocky's reaction has him bumping the pillar with his hands, at which point the entire "concrete" pillar wobbles slightly.

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During the course of the final shootout, the pattern of broken glass changes.

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At the end of the montage showing Rocky's rise as a gangster, there is a shot of two men in a moving car throwing two "bombs" at a storefront. The bombs bounce off the window and back into the street just before the storefront explodes.

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Quotes

Rocky Sullivan: [to Soapy] Next time you roll a guy for his poke, make sure he don't know your hideout.

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James Frazier: [to Rocky and Mac] Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, gentleman. There's no sense in running too far ahead of ourselves. Don't forget, there are all kinds of grand juries and there's all kinds of ways of handling them. That's why you got me for.

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Laury Ferguson: Look, just because you got me seeing things straight now, there's no reason why I should wear it. I still remember what Rocky's kind is like.

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Faq

Q

Chicago Ooening Happened When?

A

The hit Warner Bros. film, Angles With Dirty Faces, opened in Chicago at the Chicago theatre (State near Randolplh) on Friday, November 25, 1938---the ad reads: "Far Beyond the Highest Dramatic Peak the World Has Ever Known . . . With Pride That is Humbled Before Greatness Warner Brothers Bring You---Angles With Dirty Faces---James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The 'Dead End' Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, directed by Michael Curtiz . . . Holiday Stage Revue: In Person . . . Clyde Lucas and his Orchestra!. . . the film was held over for a second week.

Q

"Dead End Kids"---Who of Them Joined the Navy?

A

Chicago Sun, Friday, October 16, 1942, p. 15:Two 'Dead End Kids' Enter U.S. NavyHollywood, Oct. 16--Four actors today enlisted in the United States Armed services--two joined the Navy, one the Army Air Corps and one applied for Army flying traiing.The two Navy recruits were members of the "Dead Edn" kids gang of film fame, Norman Abbott and Gabriel Dell. John Payne enrolled at the Phoenix (Ariz.) recruiting station as a member of the Army Reserve for a 40-week course starting in January, after which Payne will serve as a pilot or instructor. Richard Arlen, who holds a private pilot's license, filled an application at Mather Field, Sacramento, for service pilot training._______________________

Q

Frankie Burke---How Was He Described?

A

Chicago Tribune, Thursday, November 24, 1938, p. 34, c. 5:FRONT VIEWS and PROFILESbyJune Provines"Frankie Burke, red-headed 16 year old from Brooklyn, who takes the part of Cagney as a young lad in Angles With Dirty Faces, in town yesterday. He has the Cagney trick of holding in his chin, head to one side, the slant of eye, and the mouth of the tough guy of the films. . . . "_______________________________

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