Angels With Dirty Faces

1938
US
1h 37min
PG

Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Written by: Rowland Brown, John Wexley, Warren Duff, Ben Hecht (uncredited), Charles MacArthur (uncredited)
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The Dead End Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft

The classic gangster movie and with a message to boot. Two slum kids, Cagney and O'Brien, grow up together. One becomes a hood, the other a priest. The local kids look up to Cagney's glamorous, violent ways, but his childhood friend is on his case, pushing him down the path of redemption.