#Angels With Dirty Faces

[cinemaspast]

"Promise me you won't let me hear you pray."

"I promise you won't hear me."

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938)

[marypickfords]

Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938)

[of-fear-and-love]

James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

[old-film-posters]

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938) fan made poster by me!

this one can be found on tmdb too in case you wanna use it on letterboxd <3 (dm if you do). please don't re-upload it without my permission. :)

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tmdb user: nevercvrsed

requests are always open!

[colorhollywood]

James Cagney and Ann Sheridan

Film: Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

[misterivy]

James Cagney and The Dead End Kids in “Angels with dirty faces “ 1938

[sowhatifiliveinasmalltowninjapan]

Tricky

Angels With Dirty Faces (1998)

[spockvarietyhour]

If you're a steve right now you are shitting yourself

[voidblacktea]

Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

I watched Angels With Dirty Faces for the first time last year and it was the film that made me fall in love with the world of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) has just served 3 years in prison. Now he's out he is looking for the $100,000 that James Frazier (Bogie) promised him. Will he be able to collect or will he be swimming with the fishes?

Cagney is just a powerhouse in this film and I am always rooting for his character to the end. I also believe that the ending makes sense in the context of the Hays Code and I actually adore its ambiguity.

Sometimes, as much as we naturally rally against the Hays Code, it's also possible that these types of constraints can end up benefitting a piece of creative work, and if the film is as great as "Angels With Dirty Faces", they may foster greater creativity. In this instance I'd struggle to imagine that hauting ending any other way. Did he fake it for the kids or did he finally crumble confronted his own fate? In my mind he's faking it, but the doubt is always there. That scene is so beautifully shot and then we have the actual final scene as the kids ascend to Heaven led by Father Connolly... but does Rocky go there too?

A 10/10 film. And surely one of the most influential performances in the history of cinema.

"There's not a fake minute in a James Cagney movie" - Orson Welles

[disease]

TALK TO ME (ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES) TRICKY ft. MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD [ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, 1998]

[lobbycards]

Angels with Dirty Faces, Italian lobby card (fotobusta). Italian theatrical release 1946

[marypickfords]

Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938)

[noyougirlz]

keisha buchanan in shape by sugababes (2002)

[of-fear-and-love]

Out of context 1930s dialogue from Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); Dodsworth (1936); The Skin Game (1931); G-Men (1935); My Man Godfrey (1936); Things to Come (1936); The 39 Steps (1935); Easy Living (1937); Sabotage (1936); and The Awful Truth (1937)

[quitecontraryy]

Let me lay it on the line

I've got a little freakiness inside

And you know that a man has gotta deal with it

I don't care what they say

I'm not about to pay nobody's way

'Cause it's all about the dark in me

[craigfernandez]