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Angels with Dirty Faces
Crime, Drama
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly 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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value morally conflicted crime dramas with strong social conscience, emotional performances, and a redemptive final act.
- Tone
- bleak, sentimental, tense
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- friendship, redemption, moral influence, juvenile delinquency, sacrifice
- Setting
- Depression-era city, impoverished tenement neighborhoods and reform institutions