Dead End (1937)
Country: US
Technical: bw 92m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Wendy Barrie
Synopsis:
The stories of an architect badly in need of a job, the two women in his life, and a gangster returning to the stamping ground of his youth, all combine with, and implicate, those of a gang of street kids preparing to be the next generation of Depression era America.
Review:
Sam Goldwyn really went for prestige with this real-life drama, hiring Lillian Hellman and assigning it to one of his best directors. He also managed to borrow rising star Bogart from Warners. The results packed a punch, going beyond mere crime drama or gangster pic to interrogate what was happening to city kids after decades of neglect. The 'Dead End kids', as they would be termed, returned in the more generic, though no less shattering, Angels with Dirty Faces.
Country: US
Technical: bw 92m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Wendy Barrie
Synopsis:
The stories of an architect badly in need of a job, the two women in his life, and a gangster returning to the stamping ground of his youth, all combine with, and implicate, those of a gang of street kids preparing to be the next generation of Depression era America.
Review:
Sam Goldwyn really went for prestige with this real-life drama, hiring Lillian Hellman and assigning it to one of his best directors. He also managed to borrow rising star Bogart from Warners. The results packed a punch, going beyond mere crime drama or gangster pic to interrogate what was happening to city kids after decades of neglect. The 'Dead End kids', as they would be termed, returned in the more generic, though no less shattering, Angels with Dirty Faces.
Country: US
Technical: bw 92m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Wendy Barrie
Synopsis:
The stories of an architect badly in need of a job, the two women in his life, and a gangster returning to the stamping ground of his youth, all combine with, and implicate, those of a gang of street kids preparing to be the next generation of Depression era America.
Review:
Sam Goldwyn really went for prestige with this real-life drama, hiring Lillian Hellman and assigning it to one of his best directors. He also managed to borrow rising star Bogart from Warners. The results packed a punch, going beyond mere crime drama or gangster pic to interrogate what was happening to city kids after decades of neglect. The 'Dead End kids', as they would be termed, returned in the more generic, though no less shattering, Angels with Dirty Faces.