Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Escritores:

John Wexley (screenplay) and
Warren Duff (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

26 noviembre 1938 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Cine Negro

Frase comercial:

The saga of America's dirty faced kids... And the breaks that life won't give them!

Plot:

Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hell's Kitchen...

Plot Keywords:

Priest | Gunfire | Reform School | Rooftop | Catholic Priest

Premios:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A favorite Bogart film by default...

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

Battle of City Hall (USA) (working title)
Ángeles con caras sucias (Argentina) (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Norway:16 (1939) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Portugal:M/12 | UK:A (1938) (cut) | UK:PG (1986) | Sweden:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:G (cable rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | Chile:18 | Finland:(Banned) (1939-1950) | Finland:K-16 (1950) | USA:Approved (PCA #4496) | Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Sing Sing Penitentiary - 354 Hunter Street, Ossining, New York, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

The moment in which Rocky forces a trailing hood to take his place inside the phone booth in the pharmacy to get killed was inspired by the death of New York gangster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. In the real incident, Coll was locked in a gang war with "Dutch" Schultz. During the war, Coll hid in an apartment above a pharmacy and would only come out to go into the pharmacy and call his girlfriend from the phone booth. Dutch found out about this and when Coll went to make his routine phone call, two of Schultz's gun men walked in and shot Coll to death.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: As Father walks away from the gang in the pool hall, a camera shadow falls across other patrons of the hall.

Citas:

[first lines]
Jerry, As a Boy: Bulls eye!
William 'Rocky' Sullivan, as a boy: It's as dead as a door nail around here.
Jerry, As a Boy: Yeah.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in A School Story (2009)

Banda de Sonido:

Angels with Dirty Faces

A favorite Bogart film by default...

"Angels With Dirty Faces" has become a favorite Bogart film by default; it has been shown so often and has served as the prime source of material for countless satirists and impressionists…

It is the familiar tale of two young boys who grow up to be on opposing sides of the field—one a gangster (James Cagney) and the other a priest, (Pat O'Brien). The story was obviously sentimental… Its saving virtues were the performances by the leads, clever and suave, energetic direction by Michael Curtiz, and a good music score by Max Steiner…

Bogart had little, and certainly nothing new, to do as he played Cagney's lawyer-turned-nightclub-owner who double-crosses him…