The saga of America’s dirty faced kids... and the breaks that life won’t give them!
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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- talisencrwon TMDB · Jan 201610/10
A simply outstanding unique take on the tried-and-true gangster yarn by the incredible team of James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Ann Sheridan. Another masterpiece by the little-heralded director Michael Curtiz.
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Cast
- James CagneyRocky Sullivan
- Pat O'BrienJerry Connolly
- Humphrey BogartJames Frazier
- Ann SheridanLaury Ferguson
- George BancroftMac Keefer
- Billy HalopSoapy
- Bobby JordanSwing
- Leo GorceyBim
- Gabriel DellPasty
- Huntz HallCrab
Crew
- Michael CurtizDirector
- John WexleyScreenplay
- Warren DuffScreenplay
- Charles MacArthurWriter
- Ben HechtWriter
- Sol PolitoDirector of Photography
- Max SteinerOriginal Music Composer
- Owen MarksEditor
- Samuel BischoffProducer
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