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Angels With Dirty Faces [1938]

Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft
Director: Michael Curtiz
Format: Black & White PAL
Released: 06 Mar 2000
RRP: £10.99
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Cagney at his very best - By: sm, 04 Jan 2006
James Cagney stars in one of the most memorable films of alll time.Bringing his criminal character to life with fine acting.Pat O'Brien & the Dead End kids provide the perfect foil for Cagney.You couldn't watch this film without wanting to watch it again.Buy it & enjoy!
One of the best - a part of the 20th century - By: Jonathan Bryce, 25 Jan 2001
Cagney & O'Brien grow up together, rob a train - Cagney is caught, O'Brien escapes. Years later they meet up again, with Cagney now a hardened criminal, O'Brien a catholic priest. The priest aims to keep the local youths - the "dead end kids" out of trouble, but they worship Cagney's character "Rocky Sullivan". Eventuallly the father leads a press campaign against Sullivan, climaxing in a gunfight. Sullivan prepares to go to the electric chair when he old friend asks him to pretend to be afraid, so as to break the hero-worship of the kids, before they to end up like him.

Brilliant - superb scenes, classic Cagney. The end sequence is eternal & unforgettable. The recent "Sleepers" tried a similar theme but didn't even come close.