A Masterpiece!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Rocky came back to the old side East And treated the kids to a feast But he wound up bury Due to Father Jerry The moral is-Don't trust a priest!Seriously-I found Father Jerry obnoxious and nauseating. with today's technology, could one make a version in which Rocky shot him instead?The "rackets", after all, often amounted to victimless crimes like gambling and prostitution-and, in the Twenties, bootlegging! Possible sequel-the kids find out about Jerry's last words to rocky and turn against him-with a vengeance!

I love the fact we can share our love or distaste of a film to forewarn or encourage a viewing. This film i will be encouraging all to see, this film is in my all time list of greatest films to see, yes i have many in this category but i do watch a lot. back in the 70s and 80s not many films were put out on Terrestrial TV apart from many black and white Film Noir movies or westerns. this film i watched many times back then and i am reviving my love of them and why not. this film has three of the best actors there was back then, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Pat O Brian. it has a relatively small cast but it makes it and keeps you entertained fully. The story is about a tough guy (cagney) who is looked upon by the local young hoodlums as a star. Pat O Brian plays his old school chum buddy who has become a priest and trying to keep the young lads in the area on the straight and narrow. Bogart plays the classic double crosser and well what you see is a classic film well shot, acted and keeps you hooked start to finish, you cant go wrong in this film.

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES has something different to distinguish it from the other gangster flicks starring James Cagney: the emphasis of this film is on a gang of feral youths he befriends (played by the 'Dead End Kinds) rather than he himself. So we still get the meteoric rise to fame and eventual downfall, but the narrative is slightly skewed so that a gang of innocents are the central focus.Inevitably, this is a film that still belongs to Cagney, who invests it with his typical energy and dynamism. Humphrey Bogart takes a minor supporting role but it's left to Pat O'Brien to bag the film's most challenging role, that of a former criminal turned priest. ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES has plenty of drama, action, and suspense to recommend it, and the tragic climax hits all the right chords.

One of my top five movies of all time. I won't make any commentary on the movie itself(not sure if citing one line of a movie constitutes a 'spoiler' violation).I've seen a lot of movies from the silent Sennett comedies, Fairbanks athletics, Cheney's makeup transformations right up through today's films (thank you old first-generation UHF and now TCM), but this one is the one that by which every good gangster movie since must be judged.The story is as intense as Scarface (both Muni and Pachino), or most any Cagney role from Public Enemy on. If you like movies like Petrified Forest, Casablanca, High Sierra you're going to see Bogart do it to perfection in his role. Of course, the Dead End Kids present a version of young 1930's era street-wise kids that by today's standards are gentle souls.I find all of the older movies fascinating glimpses into the times from which the movies were created; the cinematography, dialogue, city scenes, day-to-day living, the roadways of the day all provide a spectacular look at the past, and this 75 year old movie delivers that by the bucket-load.The actors are all top-tier, the storyline takes off like an F-16 and doesn't stop.Cagney sets the bar in this 75 year old film, and I haven't yet seen anyone surpassing him.