
The Asphalt Jungle(1950)
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.


“The saga of America’s dirty faced kids... and the breaks that life won’t give them!”
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.

James Cagney
Rocky Sullivan

Pat O'Brien
Jerry Connolly

Humphrey Bogart
James Frazier

Ann Sheridan
Laury Ferguson

George Bancroft
Mac Keefer

Billy Halop
Soapy

Bobby Jordan
Swing

Leo Gorcey
Bim

Gabriel Dell
Pasty

Huntz Hall
Crab
Angels with Dirty Faces is a crime, drama film released in 1938 exploring themes of casino, based on novel or book, gangster, film noir, black and white, dead end kids. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart. 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.
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