Movie
Angels with Dirty Faces
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1938-11-26
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan
- Pat O'Brien as Jerry Connolly
- Humphrey Bogart as James Frazier
- Ann Sheridan as Laury Ferguson
- George Bancroft as Mac Keefer
- Billy Halop as Soapy
- Bobby Jordan as Swing
- Leo Gorcey as Bim
- Gabriel Dell as Pasty
- Huntz Hall as Crab
- Bernard Punsly as Hunky
- Joe Downing as Steve
Crew
- Michael Curtiz - Director
- Charles MacArthur - Writer
- Ben Hecht - Writer
- John Wexley - Screenplay
- Warren Duff - Screenplay
- Rowland Brown - Story
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