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Angels With Dirty Faces
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Mon Mar 15
7:30 pm
Angels With Dirty Faces at Fredric March Play Circle
There are few moments in American cinema more profound than the closing moments of 1938’s Michael Curtiz-directed Angels With Dirty Faces, as a hard-luck gangster (James Cagney) has to decide whether to do a favor for his boyhood friend, a priest played by Pat O’Brien. After an hour and a half of crackerjack mob action and Cagney at his best, the anti-hero chooses between going out like a man or behaving like a coward, weighing which option might be a bad influence to the urchins who idolize him. His need to make any choice at all still says volumes about the appeal of the criminal rogue to impressionable youths and thrill-seeking adults.
Fredric March Play Circle 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI
There are few moments in American cinema more profound than the closing moments of 1938’s Michael Curtiz-directed Angels With Dirty Faces, as a hard-luck gangster (James Cagney) has to decide whether to do a favor for his boyhood friend, a priest played by Pat O’Brien. After an hour and a half of crackerjack mob action and Cagney at his best, the anti-hero chooses between going out like a man or behaving like a coward, weighing which option might be a bad influence to the urchins who idolize him. His need to make any choice at all still says volumes about the appeal of the criminal rogue to impressionable youths and thrill-seeking adults.
Updated 03/11/2010
