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1938
Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros. Pictures. It stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The Dead End Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, and George Bancroft. The screenplay was written by John Wexley and Warren Duff based on the story by Rowland Brown. The film chronicles the relationship of the notorious gangster William "Rocky" Sullivan with his childhood…
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Warner Bros. stood among the grand studios of Classic Hollywood for being specialised for gangster films. In that way, it delivered the least escapist of all Hollywood entertainment to audience, especially since its gangsters film had strong social undertones, with their content suggesting poverty, which had been increasing during Great Depression, as fertile ground for crime. This notion was very explicitly stated…More