list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Angels With Dirty Faces on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Angels_With_Dirty_Faces/1402/default.aspx Title: Angels With Dirty Faces
Year: 1938
Director: Michael Curtiz
Plot: Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) 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. Rocky becomes a hero to a gang of teenaged boys (played by Dead End Kids Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Jordan and Bernard Punsley). Father Jerry despairs at this, asking Rocky to lay off so he can keep the kids on the straight and narrow. Then Rocky's crooked business associates George Bancroft and Humphrey Bogart attempt to end Father Jerry's radio campaign against the rackets by killing the priest. Rocky (whose cynical outlook on life has been softened by his romance with true-blue Anne Sheridan) shoots them down and takes it on the lam. Arrested and convicted of murder, Rocky sits smugly on death row, fully intending to go to the chair with a smile on his face. A few moments before the execution, Father Jerry pleads with Rocky to "turn yellow" so that the tenement kids will despise his memory. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:53:07 GMTAngels With Dirty Faces1938Michael CurtizChildhood chums Rocky Sullivan (<a href="/players/P____10165/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>James Cagney</a>) and Jerry Connelly (<a href="/players/P____53289/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Pat O'Brien</a>) 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. Rocky becomes a hero to a gang of teenaged boys (played by <a href="/players/P____18097/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dead End Kids</a> <a href="/players/P____29882/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Billy Halop</a>, <a href="/players/P____27744/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Leo Gorcey</a>, <a href="/players/P____29775/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Huntz Hall</a>, <a href="/players/P____18445/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Gabriel Dell</a>, <a href="/players/P____36273/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Bobby Jordan</a> and Bernard Punsley). Father Jerry despairs at this, asking Rocky to lay off so he can keep the kids on the straight and narrow. Then Rocky's crooked business associates <a href="/players/P_____3675/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>George Bancroft</a> and <a href="/players/P_____7027/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Humphrey Bogart</a> attempt to end Father Jerry's radio campaign against the rackets by killing the priest. Rocky (whose cynical outlook on life has been softened by his romance with true-blue <a href="/players/P___186430/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Anne Sheridan</a>) shoots them down and takes it on the lam. Arrested and convicted of murder, Rocky sits smugly on death row, fully intending to go to the chair with a smile on his face. A few moments before the execution, Father Jerry pleads with Rocky to "turn yellow" so that the tenement kids will despise his memory. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide23Tag Target (>10)6324http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t51890iaaya.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Angels_With_Dirty_Faces/1402/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2009/5/20/42342.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 5/20/2009 10:21:50 AM
Body: This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Angels with Dirty Faces Angels with Dirth Faces (most likely the inspiration for the name Angels with Filthy Souls, the fake gangster movie featured in Home Alone as most people my age probably think of when hearing the title) throws a lot of different elements together. You have the main story with James Cagney's and Pat O'Brien's characters as friends who by circumstance get thrown into opposite paths in life but remain friends of sorts. You get a vehicle for the Dead End Kids that solidified them as a viable box office draw in their first main film outside of the Dead End story that made them famous. You get a love story that doesn't develop into much. And a few other elements here and there. Cagney is always so captivating to watch, and the interactions with the Dead End kids can be amusing as well. I was ready to rate this movie higher than I did until the end which quite annoyed me. *some spoilers to follow* The idea that Father Jerry feels like he needs to persuade Rocky pretend that he is a coward at the last minute of his life to persuade the Dead End Kids' characters to follow the Christian faith is really absurd and rather insulting I think. First of all, it's hard for me to believe that something like Rocky crying and begging before going to the electric chair is really going to cause a major life conversion for these kids. And secondly, and most importantly, it insinuates that a viable Christian faith can be achieved in a way other than through revelation of the truth of the Gospel and God's love and grace. Not only that, it insinuates that this faith can be or in some cases must be based on lies! And it's also so strange because a primary theme of the film is a very self aware exploration of how Hollywood can produce gangster films which people want to watch because the life of the gangster is so fascinating while complying with the Hays Office which required that any gangster movies depict the results of a life of crime as being undesirable. The Dead End Kids are kind of like the American audience. It's like they are saying, we know you came to this movie to live vicariously through the gangster, to enjoy the riches and excitement of a life of crime, but we have to lie to you at the end with an incongruous ending because the Hays Office is requiring us to. I think there are ways of being more honest in a depiction about a life of crime and still reveal some of the pitfalls, emptiness, anxiety, and other potential negatives of such a situation without having to feel like it's all forced. And you know, it could even be entertaining. Rating: 7/10
]]>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:21:50 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog5/20/2009 10:21:50 AMThis blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Angels with Dirty Faces Angels with Dirth Faces (most likely the inspiration for the name Angels with Filthy Souls, the fake gangster movie featured in Home Alone as most people my age probably think of when hearing the title) throws a lot of different elements together. You have the main story with James Cagney's and Pat O'Brien's characters as friends who by circumstance get thrown into opposite paths in life but remain friends of sorts. You get a vehicle for the Dead End Kids that solidified them as a viable box office draw in their first main film outside of the Dead End story that made them famous. You get a love story that doesn't develop into much. And a few other elements here and there. Cagney is always so captivating to watch, and the interactions with the Dead End kids can be amusing as well. I was ready to rate this movie higher than I did until the end which quite annoyed me. *some spoilers to follow* The idea that Father Jerry feels like he needs to persuade Rocky pretend that he is a coward at the last minute of his life to persuade the Dead End Kids' characters to follow the Christian faith is really absurd and rather insulting I think. First of all, it's hard for me to believe that something like Rocky crying and begging before going to the electric chair is really going to cause a major life conversion for these kids. And secondly, and most importantly, it insinuates that a viable Christian faith can be achieved in a way other than through revelation of the truth of the Gospel and God's love and grace. Not only that, it insinuates that this faith can be or in some cases must be based on lies! And it's also so strange because a primary theme of the film is a very self aware exploration of how Hollywood can produce gangster films which people want to watch because the life of the gangster is so fascinating while complying with the Hays Office which required that any gangster movies depict the results of a life of crime as being undesirable. The Dead End Kids are kind of like the American audience. It's like they are saying, we know you came to this movie to live vicariously through the gangster, to enjoy the riches and excitement of a life of crime, but we have to lie to you at the end with an incongruous ending because the Hays Office is requiring us to. I think there are ways of being more honest in a depiction about a life of crime and still reveal some of the pitfalls, emptiness, anxiety, and other potential negatives of such a situation without having to feel like it's all forced. And you know, it could even be entertaining. Rating: 7/10 http://www.spout.com/blogs/windbreaker/archive/2009/4/19/41653.aspx Post By: Windbreaker
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Post Date: 4/19/2009 2:30:24 PM
Body: I'm going through a Cagney phase, so I'm watching or re-watching his gangster movies in chronological order. Can't get enough of the early Warner Bros. films, and they look really good on DVD. ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is more about the conclusion than it is the 90 minutes leading up to the conclusion. It ends like just about any crime saga of its sort should end -- the bad guy takes a long walk down the prison hallway where he'll be strapped to some device and sent to meet his Maker. Father Jerry is a realistic portrayal of someone who plainly does what is right even if it means implicating a friend.
]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:30:24 GMTWindbreakerWindbreaker!4/19/2009 2:30:24 PMI'm going through a Cagney phase, so I'm watching or re-watching his gangster movies in chronological order. Can't get enough of the early Warner Bros. films, and they look really good on DVD. ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is more about the conclusion than it is the 90 minutes leading up to the conclusion. It ends like just about any crime saga of its sort should end -- the bad guy takes a long walk down the prison hallway where he'll be strapped to some device and sent to meet his Maker. Father Jerry is a realistic portrayal of someone who plainly does what is right even if it means implicating a friend. http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_November_3_The_Movies_in_the/625/36912/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 11/3/2008 4:49:16 PM
Body: [quote user="rjsprague"] Yeah I was definitely thinking of Home Alone first. I can't think of anything else right now that wasn't already mentioned. I suck at this. :( I am thinking of some films that have shots of video games in them. Maybe we could do a theme for that sometime? :) [/quote] Yeah, Home Alone had a lot of references in it. 1. Joe Pesci's character is named Harry Lime: from The Third Man 2. In France, the family watches It's a Wonderful Life 3. The movie that Kevin watches "Angels With Filthy Souls" was made up for Home Alone, but it was a spoof on Angels With Dirty Faces. that's just what I found on IMDB
]]>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:49:16 GMTleeroy711Weekly Theme11/3/2008 4:49:16 PM[quote user="rjsprague"] Yeah I was definitely thinking of Home Alone first. I can't think of anything else right now that wasn't already mentioned. I suck at this. :( I am thinking of some films that have shots of video games in them. Maybe we could do a theme for that sometime? :) [/quote] Yeah, Home Alone had a lot of references in it. 1. Joe Pesci's character is named Harry Lime: from The Third Man 2. In France, the family watches It's a Wonderful Life 3. The movie that Kevin watches "Angels With Filthy Souls" was made up for Home Alone, but it was a spoof on Angels With Dirty Faces. that's just what I found on IMDB http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_November_3_The_Movies_in_the/625/36904/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Post Date: 11/3/2008 1:35:14 PM
Body: This is one of those things that's really hard to recall, yet I know I know an insane amount of them. WALL-E - > Hello, Dolly! Donnie Darko - > Evil Dead The Dreamers - > Freaks, Bande à Part, etc. Full of references. Interview With The Vampire - > Tequila Sunrise, Superman, Gone With The WInd Natural Born Killers - > Loaded with references to countless films and television. Home Alone - > Angels With Dirty Faces That's it for now . . .
]]>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:35:14 GMTmercurialWeekly Theme11/3/2008 1:35:14 PMThis is one of those things that's really hard to recall, yet I know I know an insane amount of them. WALL-E - &gt; Hello, Dolly! Donnie Darko - &gt; Evil Dead The Dreamers - &gt; Freaks, Bande &agrave; Part, etc. Full of references. Interview With The Vampire - &gt; Tequila Sunrise, Superman, Gone With The WInd Natural Born Killers - &gt; Loaded with references to countless films and television. Home Alone - &gt; Angels With Dirty Faces That's it for now . . . http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2007/11/19/21772.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 11/19/2007 11:10:22 AM
Body: This is a list for Round 2 of my movie year countdown viewing project as first described here. If by any strange chance whoever is reading this is actually following along you may notice that I'm still less than two thirds of the way through my original one. Well I'm starting this new one because as much as I love old movies it can get a little tedious watching just older movies. So I'm going to be blending my watching of the two lists together. Still focusing on the original one, but every once in a while sliding in the next entry from this new list.Again these new movies are limited to full length movies that are available on Netflix. And for this new round instead of picking a movie from every year, I will be picking a movie from every two years. For example the first movie must have come out during 2006 or 2007. The second movie must have come out in 2004 or 2005. The next in 2002 or 2003. You see.The list is not finished yet, but here is what I have decided so far. I will update this post later with the new flicks.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Children of Men (2006)2. The New World (2005)3. Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs) (2002)4. Riri Shushu no subete (All About Lily Chou-Chou) (2001)5. Party Monster (1998)6. Hard Eight (1996)7. Smoke (1995)8. Jennifer Eight (1992)9. The Fisher King (1991)10. Tetsuo (Tetsuo, the Iron Man) (1989)11. Angel Heart (1987)12. Runaway Train (1985)13. Burden of Dreams (1982)14. The Big Red One (1980)15. Stalker (1979)16. Network (1976)17. Angst essen Seele auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) (1974)18. The Wicker Man (1973)19. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness) (1971)20. Z (1969)21. In Cold Blood (1967)22. Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) (1964)23. The Intruder (1962)24. Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring) (1960)25. Pickpocket (1959)26. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)27. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)28. Shane (1953)29. Winchester '73 (1950)30. The Big Clock (1948)31. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)32. The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)33. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)34. The Philadelphia Story (1940)35. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)36. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)37. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)38. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)39. Zemlya (Earth) (1930)40. Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) (1929)41. The Unknown (1927)42. Seven Chances (1925)43. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler) (1922)44. The Kid (1921)45. Male and Female (1919)46. Umirayushchii Lebed (The Dying Swan) (1917)47. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
]]>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:10:22 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog11/19/2007 11:10:22 AMThis is a list for Round 2 of my movie year countdown viewing project as first described here. If by any strange chance whoever is reading this is actually following along you may notice that I&#39;m still less than two thirds of the way through my original one. Well I&#39;m starting this new one because as much as I love old movies it can get a little tedious watching just older movies. So I&#39;m going to be blending my watching of the two lists together. Still focusing on the original one, but every once in a while sliding in the next entry from this new list.Again these new movies are limited to full length movies that are available on Netflix. And for this new round instead of picking a movie from every year, I will be picking a movie from every two years. For example the first movie must have come out during 2006 or 2007. The second movie must have come out in 2004 or 2005. The next in 2002 or 2003. You see.The list is not finished yet, but here is what I have decided so far. I will update this post later with the new flicks.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Children of Men (2006)2. The New World (2005)3. Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs) (2002)4. Riri Shushu no subete (All About Lily Chou-Chou) (2001)5. Party Monster (1998)6. Hard Eight (1996)7. Smoke (1995)8. Jennifer Eight (1992)9. The Fisher King (1991)10. Tetsuo (Tetsuo, the Iron Man) (1989)11. Angel Heart (1987)12. Runaway Train (1985)13. Burden of Dreams (1982)14. The Big Red One (1980)15. Stalker (1979)16. Network (1976)17. Angst essen Seele auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) (1974)18. The Wicker Man (1973)19. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness) (1971)20. Z (1969)21. In Cold Blood (1967)22. Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) (1964)23. The Intruder (1962)24. Jungfruk&auml;llan (The Virgin Spring) (1960)25. Pickpocket (1959)26. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)27. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)28. Shane (1953)29. Winchester &#39;73 (1950)30. The Big Clock (1948)31. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)32. The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)33. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)34. The Philadelphia Story (1940)35. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)36. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)37. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)38. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)39. Zemlya (Earth) (1930)40. Die B&uuml;chse der Pandora (Pandora&#39;s Box) (1929)41. The Unknown (1927)42. Seven Chances (1925)43. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler) (1922)44. The Kid (1921)45. Male and Female (1919)46. Umirayushchii Lebed (The Dying Swan) (1917)47. The Birth of a Nation (1915) http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/friendship/MemberTagFilms.aspxfriendship
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