Angels With Dirty Faces

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I'm not sure if there's a thread about this one, but who else LOVES this movie?? It really has it all: Cagney, The Dead End Kids, and Bogie acting not very Bogie-like. And what an ending!!
"Let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could."
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[nightandthecity]

one of my all time favourites! Also The Public Enemy and The Roaring Twenties, I kind of think of them as the basic Cagney trilogy.

Bogie was often a bad guy in his early films - he does it very well too.

 

[Solid Citizen]

CAGNEY RULES

Naw don't ya go messin with Cagney!!!!

1. Cagney is one of the all time great Hollywood actors.

2. I would rank Angel's as the No. 2 best Cagney flick.

3. No. 1 is a tie between "Public Enemy" & "White Heat" for me.

4. Highly recommend Warner Bros. Gangster DVD Set awesome value!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._1_1/002-9387833-2439205?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130

5. Bottom line if you don't like Cagney I don't what your doin @ this website!!!!

Peter :cool2:

PS "Made it Ma, top of the world" Cagney in "White Heat"

 

[Andykev]

I love Cagney, and look like him too, somewhat.

Ok you rank Angles with Dirty Faces up there with "White Heat"?

OK those are great pictures!!

Have you seen "Devil Dogs of the Air"?
How about "The Fighting 69'th"?
Then there is "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (his best)
..he tap dances down those stair in splendid fashion

Or, how about "The Man of 1000 Faces"?

And the great "A Lion In Winter"..the Huey Long flick

Cagney did WONDERFUL work. He is really one of the best from the old WB era.

 

[Lincsong]

They don't make them like that anymore

A perfect example of movies being used to show what happens when people try the "easy" way out. Take responsibility. Keep your nose clean. Stay out of trouble. That movie told a moral story and there were no; "F this, F that, I'm going to do what I want because 'the man' is keeping me down". If that movie was made today there would be thousands of degenerates protesting the movie saying that it played on racial and ethnic sterotypes. That it exploited the working classes and huddled masses. That it was not inclusive and tolerant of all types of behavior and that it glorified a "police state" mentality. That it is impossible to place any judgment because not everyone finds themselves in the desperate situation that the Dead Enders found themselves. Also notice that not all the Dead End Kids came from the "stereotypical" two parent norm. There is a lesson there.

 

[Lincsong]

One, Two, Three

I think this is the most funny Cagney movie. The best Cagney drama?...hmmm Yankee Doodle Dandy

 

[MudInYerEye]

Don't forget LADY KILLER. Hilarious flick.

 

[jake_fink]

A perfect example of movies being used to show what happens when people try the "easy" way out. Take responsibility. Keep your nose clean. Stay out of trouble. That movie told a moral story and there were no; "F this, F that, I'm going to do what I want because 'the man' is keeping me down". If that movie was made today there would be thousands of degenerates protesting the movie saying that it played on racial and ethnic sterotypes. That it exploited the working classes and huddled masses. That it was not inclusive and tolerant of all types of behavior and that it glorified a "police state" mentality. That it is impossible to place any judgment because not everyone finds themselves in the desperate situation that the Dead Enders found themselves. Also notice that not all the Dead End Kids came from the "stereotypical" two parent norm. There is a lesson there.

Anyway, Angel's is a lot of fun and has that great ending. Cagney was the tops. My favourite Cagney performance is in White Heat. All that crazy, twitchy, mama-lovin' psycho stuff PLUS Edmund Obrien. That's noir!

 

[The Wolf]

Let's don't forget the East Side kids

Before Huntz Hall and the boys did comedy they portrayed believable "street arabs" in dramas starting with "Dead End" also starring Bogart. One of the little known films of theirs is "Little Tough Guy". The video I had of it showed Leo Gorcey and the boys hamming it up at the soda fountain. Ironically, the movie doesn't have Gorcey and it is actually a serious look at how kids get lured into crime. The story still is accurate for today.

Also, "One, Two, Three" really is quite funny. The Vhs cover of that had a bad choice of picture too. It was from the very last scene.

The Wolf

 

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Before Huntz Hall and the boys did comedy they portrayed believable "street arabs" in dramas starting with "Dead End" also starring Bogart. One of the little known films of theirs is "Little Tough Guy". The video I had of it showed Leo Gorcey and the boys hamming it up at the soda fountain. Ironically, the movie doesn't have Gorcey and it is actually a serious look at how kids get lured into crime. The story still is accurate for today.

Also, "One, Two, Three" really is quite funny. The Vhs cover of that had a bad choice of picture too. It was from the very last scene.

The Wolf

I'm trying to find the movie "Crime School", which features the Dead End Kids. It was done sort of as a test between "Dead End" and "Angels.."

 

[nightandthecity]

A perfect example of movies being used to show what happens when people try the "easy" way out. Take responsibility. Keep your nose clean. Stay out of trouble. That movie told a moral story and there were no; "F this, F that, I'm going to do what I want because 'the man' is keeping me down". If that movie was made today there would be thousands of degenerates protesting the movie saying that it played on racial and ethnic sterotypes. That it exploited the working classes and huddled masses. That it was not inclusive and tolerant of all types of behavior and that it glorified a "police state" mentality. That it is impossible to place any judgment because not everyone finds themselves in the desperate situation that the Dead Enders found themselves. Also notice that not all the Dead End Kids came from the "stereotypical" two parent norm. There is a lesson there.

hmm, not sure its the same film I saw!

Ranking Cagney is hard, but I think I'd give equal first too Angels, Public Enemy and White Heat.....

 

[simmo]

Excellent movie.Thought the guy playing a young cagney in the movie had him down to a T. Could have been him in his younger days.

 

[nightandthecity]

"whaddya hear whaddya say"

I read somewhere Cagney got that line as a kid from a junkie/hustler who used to stand on a street corner near his home. The guy's brain had gone.

He was always amused that people used his imitation of that guy to imitate himself. "Life imitates art imitates life" kind of thing.

 

[Mr. 'H']

I was just finished watching this when I read this thread! What a coincidence! It happened to me a few days ago when someone posted a thread about Chinatown and I was in the middle of wathching it.

An excellent film which I would rate higher that White Heat and on a par with Public Enemy.

 

[nightandthecity]

It was quite a controversial film in its time, and was banned outright in half a dozen countries and in parts of Canada, though it attracted less criticism than earlier gangster pics like Scarface and Public Enemy, which had led directly to a tightening up of the Hays code and the formation of the Legion of Decency.

The main objection was the sympathetic portrayal of Rocky which was said to glamorize crime, but people were also outraged by the political sub-texts, for example, the suggestion that crime was the product of poverty, that the penal system made things worse, that basically good guys could become hoods, that money should be spent on providing kids with alternatives to street life, that beyond hoods like Rocky lay the worst criminals ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú crooked lawyers and businessmen, corrupt officials etc.

Surprisingly, it didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t attract much criticism from the Legion, who responded positively to Pat O?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢Brien?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s character. The brilliant compromise ending helped ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú its ambiguity seems to have been lost on a lot of people.

 

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I just watched this again today. Man, that electric chair scene really gets to me. SOO effective because you just don't see it coming.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Cagney was one of the greats! Loved his movies, from thirties movies, Angels With Dirty Faces, Public Enemy, etc., to Mr. Roberts, Love me or Leave Me, and Tribute to a Bad Man.

My father, when he was a young guy, looked a lot like Cagney, so, when I see an old Cagney movie, I find myself looking at a man who resembles my father, sort of startles me.

karol

 

[DutchIndo]

I grew up watching the "Bowery Boy" on Sat mornings with "Satch" and "Gimpy"(I think that was his name). I still liked "The Dead End" with Bogie and the "Dead End Kids". I read somewhere when they had the kids in Hollywood they totally destroyed the set and caused all kinds of mischief.

 

[just_me]

Cagney is my favorite actor of all time, since I saw him in Yankee Doodle Dandy on the Million Dollar Movie in NYC when I was about nine years old.

I like his 30s to mid 40s stuff the most (gangsters, comedy, dancing, etc.). No one has mentioned A Midsummer Night's Dream. I adore that movie. First saw it on the screen in an art movie house.

The only actor to whom I've ever sent a fan letter.

Re: Dead End. Great movie. The dead end kids were in the play on Broadway and were brought to Hollywood to make the movie.

 

[mannySpaghetti]

Oh what a fantastic movie it is. In the scene where Rocky cries out, it says a lot about how he did care where those kids ended up; not to do as he did and waste their lives to crime. Everything about this film is superb. :eusa_clap