Product Details

• Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Evelyn Thawl
• Directors: Bobby Connolly, Michael Curtiz, Robert Clampett
• Writers: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Crane Wilbur, John Wexley, Rowland Brown
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: January 25, 2005
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006HBV28
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,161 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Angels With Dirty Faces" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A GANGSTER ON THE RUN TAKES PEOPLE HOSTAGE IN A ROADSIDE DINER.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only Cagney could make Bogey sweat, January 18, 2006

By 

Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Angels With Dirty Faces (DVD)

Michael Curtiz' "Angels with Dirty Faces" is one of those movies (like his "Casablanca" and "Mildred Pierce") in which the planets and stars were perfectly aligned. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, and the Dead End Kids are completely believeable. In fact, even the actors who played the young Cagney and O'Brien were right on.

But it is Curtiz' direction that runs the show. Curtiz moves seamlessly from the crowded streets, to the claustrophobic tenements, to the glitzy gambling joints. And his mastery of shadow and light cannot be overstated, as historian Dana Polan points out in his insightful commentary.

All these elements combine to create a great movie, and not just a great gangster movie. The complex relationships between Rocky Sullivan, the kids, and Fadda Jerry (O'Brien)--and the astounding ending to the film--make it as poignant and widely-appealing as any other movie of its time or any other time.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gangster Film With More Texture, February 20, 2005

By 

David Baldwin (Philadelphia,PA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Angels With Dirty Faces (DVD)

What's interesting about "Angels With Dirty Faces" is it does not so much concern itself with the how someone would turn to a life of crime but the why. James Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a tragic figure of sorts because his lot in life was determined by an indiscretion as a youth which snowballed into stretches in the correction system and various organized crime ventures. On the flip side of the coin, his best friend Jerry Connolly(Pat O'Brien) became a priest. The film also draws an extraordinary canvass of the working class milieu to illustrate the squalor that would encourage someone to turn to crime. The Dead End Kids are used to great effect here to demonstrate the underbelly of the lower-class existence that most people would not want to acknowledge. Humphrey Bogart is effective also here as Sullivan's double-crossing lawyer. Credit director Michael Curtiz for pulling all of these elements together for wholly satisfying experience. This is Cagney's show ultimately, because, in a multi-hued performance he is able to allow the audience to empathize with him and mourn for him even though we disagree with his choices in life. This DVD contains a decent documentary of the film, a pretty good Technicolor short subject about a budding ballerina who wants to make it at Warner Brothers, and a Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoon.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Angels With Dirty Faces, August 10, 2005

By 

John Farr - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Angels With Dirty Faces (DVD)

It's no coincidence that both "Angels" and "Casablanca" were directed by Michael Curtiz, since there's very little wrong with either picture. Cagney is the quintessential gangster with a heart of gold, and his real-life friend Pat O'Brien is equally strong as Father Connolly. Beautifully realized in every respect-- one of the all-time champs.