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Movie critics combined give Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) a score of 3.0950 out of 4
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.31 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.comfilmcritic.com
Casablanca director Michael Curtiz turned in this pioneering entry in 1938 -- part of the budding street urchin genre that posed the question of what society would do with its troubled kids. Starring the Dead End Kids (a group of hooligans akin to the ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at filmcritic.com
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Decent Films Guide - faith on filmDecent Films Guide - faith on film
The Dead End Kids have dirty faces, all right — but they’re no angels. Tough-talking young hoods much given to slapping one another’s faces and terrorizing their lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood, they may tolerate sincere, savvy Father Jerry ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at Decent Films Guide - faith on film
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Casablanca director Michael Curtiz turned in this pioneering entry in 1938 -- part of the budding street urchin genre that posed the question of what society would do with its troubled kids. Starring the Dead End Kids (a group of hooligans akin to the ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)
In 1931, Warner Brothers released the compact, brutish gangster classic Little Caesar to a movie-going public that had escaped the eye-opening inhumanity of the Industrial Revolution and World War I, only to land in the thick of Prohibition and the Great ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Movie MirrorMovie Mirror
In 1920 Rocky picks on Laury. Rocky and Jerry try to rob a train, but only Rocky is caught and sent to reform school. Rocky commits various crimes and serves sentences. Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) tells his lawyer James Frazier (Humphrey Bogart) not to ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at Movie Mirror
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (M. P. Bartley)eFilmCritic.com (M. P. Bartley)
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.03 out of 4 stars for DVD TimesDVD Times
Angels With Dirty Faces is not a particularly profound film but it is based on a profound idea; that fate can be decided on something as simplistic as that one boy can run faster than another. This irresistible concept, added to the professionalism of ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at DVD Times
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
One of MGM's sincere and almost frighteningly pious 1930s melodramas. ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Doug Pratt's Laserdisc ReviewDoug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
The source material is still littered with scratches and speckles, but MGM/UA has done everything else they can to spruce up the title, which was once available through CBS/Fox. MGM/UA's disc opens with an appropriate Looney Tunes cartoon, Thugs With ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.99 out of 4 stars for allesfilm.com (Stefan Oswald)allesfilm.com (Stefan Oswald)
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.95 out of 4 stars for DVD Authority.com (Daniel Pulliam)DVD Authority.com (Daniel Pulliam)
It might be considered a bit overdone these days, but the story of two friends at odds has been a Hollywood staple for as long as there have been motion pictures. "Angels With Dirty Faces" was one of the first films to exploit the premise to the hilt, ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at DVD Authority.com (Daniel Pulliam)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.85 out of 4 stars for MediaScreen.comMediaScreen.com
ouple of Hell's Kitchen hell raisers -- Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) part company after being sent to reform school in Michael Curtiz's classic "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938). For Rocky, the years of meditation ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at MediaScreen.com
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.82 out of 4 stars for digitallyOBSESSED.com (Jon Danziger)digitallyOBSESSED.com (Jon Danziger)
History tells us otherwise, but it feels sometimes like gangster movies were invented for James Cagney. His personal onscreen rogues' gallery is a veritable encyclopedia of the genre; he wisely didn't let himself get pigeonholed by making gangster ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at digitallyOBSESSED.com (Jon Danziger)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.81 out of 4 stars for Classic Film GuideClassic Film Guide
Directed by Michael Curtiz, with a story by Rowland Brown (The Doorway to Hell (1930)), this essential crime drama features not only one of several James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart pairings, but also one of several James Cagney-Pat O'Brien pairings as well. ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at Classic Film Guide
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for DVD Town (John J. Puccio)DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
This 1938 film release is the epitome of the Warner Bros. gangster-movie style. The story is hackneyed and the characters are stereotyped, but under the sure hand of Michael Curtiz ("Captain Blood," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "The Adventures of ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.74 out of 4 stars for Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top CriticsRotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.65 out of 4 stars for DVD Verdict (Rob Lineberger)DVD Verdict (Rob Lineberger)
Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) are New Yorkers of Irish descent, making trouble and looking for money as they prowl their urban neighborhood. One of their exploits leads to Rocky's capture and introduction to Juvenile ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at DVD Verdict (Rob Lineberger)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.63 out of 4 stars for The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) is a classic example of a Warner Bros. gangster/crime melodrama of the 1930s - a slick, action-packed, hard-hitting studio film layered with a touch of social conscience. Director Michael Curtiz blended the irresistible ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.60 out of 4 stars for DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)
Warners has dug deep down into its inventory and pulled out six titles that are the core of their golden-era image, the elite of the Gangster film. Paramount and Josef von Sternberg kicked off the genre in the silent era, but once one gets past the ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.56 out of 4 stars for Slant Magazine - DVD ReviewSlant Magazine - DVD Review
Gangster films blazed their way into the public consciousness in the depression era. There was something emboldening about watching onscreen tough guys like James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson following through on their cocksure criminal ambitions. Even ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at Slant Magazine - DVD Review
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) scores a combined 2.56 out of 4 stars for Film Freak CentralFilm Freak Central
For those who hold to the dubious belief that the Production Code produced better filmmaking through deviousness, there is no better ammunition than 1938's Angels with Dirty Faces. On the surface satisfying the crime-doesn't-pay, ...read the complete Angels with Dirty Faces movie review at Film Freak Central
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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