Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Release Year: 1938
Country: USA
Runtime: 97
Rating: 5.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Michael Curtiz
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Sensational Human Drama... Terrific Thrills And Suspense!

A Big Time Cast in a Big City Drama Destined to be the Biggest Hit in Years!

Writing by: John Wexley - (screenplay) and
Warren Duff - (screenplay)
Rowland Brown - (story)
Ben Hecht - uncredited and
Charles MacArthur - uncredited

Produced by: Samuel Bischoff - producer (uncredited)

Cast: James Cagney - Rocky Sullivan
Pat OBrien - 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
Bernard Punsly - Hunky (as Bernard Punsley)

Music: Max Steiner
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Plot Outline: Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hells Kitchen...
Plot: Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hells Kitchen. Early on, Rocky gets sent to reform school, where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry, who had escaped from the law, goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults, they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry works with the kids who, like he and Rocky, could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isnt anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks, roughhousing and gunfire ensues.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After the final credits roll, you can hear Animal say "Bye Bye, Bye Bye, Bye Bye...Hasta Luego"

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: At the end of the montage showing Rockys rise as a gangster, there is a shot of two men in a moving car throwing two "bombs" at a storefront. The bombs bounce off the window and back into the street just before the storefront explodes.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The Dead End Kids terrorized the set during shooting. They threw other actors off with their ad-libbing, and once cornered costar Humphrey Bogart and stole his trousers. But they didnt figure on James Cagneys street-bred toughness. The first time Leo Gorcey pulled an ad-lib on Cagney, the star stiff-armed the young actor right above the nose. From then on, the gang behaved.
• Because of the controversy over gangster films, the film was banned outright in Denmark, China, Poland, Finland, and parts of Canada and Switzerland.
• To play Rocky, James Cagney drew on his memories of growing up in New Yorks Hells Kitchen. His main inspiration was a drug-addicted pimp who stood on a street corner all day hitching his trousers, twitching his neck, and repeating, "Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!" Those mannerisms came back to haunt Cagney. He later wrote in his autobiography, "I did those gestures maybe six times in the picture. That was over thirty years ago - and the impressionists have been doing me doing him ever since."

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