Angels With Dirty Faces (DVD)

Any film that stars Bogart and Cagney has to be well worth a watch. This film pairs them up in a good bad guy/bad bad guy way so that it creates a twin parallel. The main parallel is between Cagney and Pat O'Brian one of whom becomes a gangster the other a priest. Along the way Cagney builds something of a following amongst the local kids and when it comes his turn for to go must decide whether or not to the right thing in order to save the kids future. A wise-cracking gun-toting barrel of fun from start to finish. I can highly recommend this to anyone who likes those classic tough guy movies. Up there with Scarface and White Heat. ...

As a child of about 4 I remember, one Christmas time, watching Angels with Dirty faces at my nan's house on a really old black and white TV. To this day, more than 40 years on, I can still remember how I felt when I watched the end of the film. Starring James (you dirty rat) Cagney and Pat O'Brian, it is the story of childhood friends going in two different directions. O'Brian becomes a priest and Cagney follows a life of crime. He is seen by some kids as a hero, he always stays cool, some try to emulate him. Unfortunately Cagney's lifestyle catches up with him and he is sentenced to death. Acting the hard man he ...