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The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 4 nominations total
Leo Gorcey
- Spit
- (as Leo B. Gorcey)
- Director
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- TriviaWilliam Wyler gave Claire Trevor an old purse and broken high heel shoes. He had her minimize her make-up and ordered her not to comb her hair when she got up in the morning. He wanted her to look like the downtrodden character she was playing.
- GoofsBaby Face Martin suddenly appears from nowhere and is leaning against a railing as the boys are fighting.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: Every street in New York ends in a river. For many years the dirty banks of the East River were lined with the tenements of the poor. Then the rich, discovering that the river traffic was picturesque, moved their houses eastward. And now the terraces of these great apartment houses look down into the windows of the tenement poor.
- SoundtracksBoo-Hoo
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb
Lyrics by Edward Heyman
Played at the upstairs party and sung by Huntz Hall in the street
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Cul-de Sac (but not for one!)...
Now here's a fascinating world from the late 1930s, where they're not really angels but they still have faces dirty, where the rich butt up with poor, as they wander through their backdoor, and the disconnect provokes and displeases. The kids of the Dead End are always causing trouble, as they live their lives in a ghetto like bubble, observed by 'Baby Face' Martin, who's returned to be disheartened, this villain prefers knife over knuckle. You're left with a feeling that the worlds on the cusp, a self-destructive nature that might leave it in dust, but four years later a falcon will rise, and a year after that a white house will surprise.
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- Aug 15, 2023
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- Dead End: Cradle of Crime
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- $300,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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