Angels With Dirty Faces

It's like I've said for years now: GOODFELLAS would be way better if there was a scene with a 10 minute-long youth league basketball game right in the middle.

Timcop

In this movie, a major newspaper runs a front-page story that is entirely devoted to mocking a man for weeping on his way to the electric chair.

Will Sloan

Jimmy Cagney absolutely slapping the hell out of every kid on sight is gangster cinema at it’s purest!!! Was in the mood for something like this but I didn’t account for how much it’d pull me in; from the get go I was hooked on all these guys (who, by the way, have…

Adrian

James Cagney possesses an on-screen power in this Michael Curtiz directed movie which discerns itself in intriguing ways alongside his performances in The Public Enemy and particularly White Heat, mainly as a result of the soft cushioned core which is spotlighted…

Paul Elliott

“Let’s go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn’t run as fast as I could.”

cassandra

this is perfectly competent, the central performances are quite good (especially cagney) and the Big Dramatic Moment near the end really works but as is clear by the title they went with curtiz is less interested in the grim, genuinely heart-breaking gangster film in here…

Josh Lewis

Everything that's great about Angels with Dirty Faces pours out of James Cagney himself, his charisma and natural sensitivity making Rocky Sullivan a living man rather than a cipher to do the Hays Office's bidding. Such is the power of Rocky's personality and will that…

sakana1

Film #22 of Project 30 ”Always remember: Don't be a sucker.” Michael Curtiz is one of the most underrated directors of the classic era, although he made some of the most famous and most popular movies of 30s and 40s but still some people consider him only a…

Dragonknight

One of my nerdy life goals is that one day, my vocabulary will consist entirely of movie quotes. Every time I open my mouth, it's a quote. Really fun for me, really annoying for everyone else. And Angels with Dirty Faces just gave me a ton to work with. From now on, I will…

Anna Imhof 🌸