
Dead End
4
Crime
Drama
1937
93 min
NR
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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"This a classic. It featureds three great stars, Humphrey Bogart, Clair Trevor, and Joel McCrea. it features characters actors Ward Bond, and Marjory Main. It introduced the Dead End Kids,also known as the Bowrey Boys who went on to make countless popular forgettable films.The staging was based on the real East 53rd street dead end at New Yorks East River with a luxury apartment building overlooking slums. It deals with the timeless facts of class inequality, "
"Great Story line and cinematography. Classic early Bogart. "
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Tom Kowalyk