My mother worked at Binion's Horseshoe in Vegas one night Cagney had a meal in the restaurant. My mom had the book "Cagney by Cagney " in her purse not only did he sign the book but left her a $5 dollar bill which he also signed "Top of the world to you! Jimmy Cagney" Moms gone now but I have the book and the bill she used to use for its bookmark. I'll never forget how excited she was that day. Born in 1929 she grew up watching his movies and turned me on to them as a teen. Top of the world you are Ma...and you too Jimmy 🙏🙏
@@kelleymcbride4633 your so welcome Kelley 😀 I take great pleasure in having that memory and retelling it to people that appreciate how great Jimmy was 🙏
NOBODY LIKE CAGNEY...he dances like a dream..acted like a legend..handsome with the devils twinkle in his eye....THE BEST....theyll NEVER be another.....WALK THE WILD.STREETS JIMMY💗💗💗
Nobody plays a gangster like James Cagney. Growing up on the Lower East side of Manhattan without a father figure my idol was Rocky Sullivan and the rest of his GANGSTER character's. My friends and I thought we were the DEAD END KIDS from this movie. Same neighborhood, 40 something years later
My dad often sent me to the store to pick up his cigarettes when I was a youngster, but this was the 1970s and by then, even 40-50 years ago, the time had passed when kids were able to purchase any alcoholic beverages even under the pretext (whether truthfully or not) of doing so for their parents.
The story I recall from a biography of Jimmy is that when Michael Curtiz said "action!" Gorcey made a wisecrack and Jimmy punched him and said "We are professionals and we don't waste these people's time!" One of the kids said, "He's no Bogart." They gave Bogie a hard time as he only played tough guys, but Cagney was the real deal. There was no one like him.
If you can catch the whole movie, the beginning scenes with Cagney & OBrien as gang kids are great. The young actor who plays Cagney at around age 13, looks & sounds exactly like him, with the fast talking and everything. .(hint--check dailymotion dot com for this & other films not free on YT)
Thanks, I have seen it many times. Cagney said in a biography that Sullivan was based on a street guy he knew when he was a kid. the movements, the shoulder-shrugging and so forth.
Yes ! A trivia thing -- in Cagney's wonderful autobiography there's a picture of him as a baby in a fancy wicker pram, turn of the century..He was the most gorgeous baby ever, I have the picture framed !
@ DJ Really DJ, that's the truth! Just finished seeing the movie and when I saw that wink, I started laughing and said aloud-"Ahh bastard, he made that look slick!" If any one else tried that wink with that smirk, it would probably look cheesy and stupid. But Cagney made it look extremely cool! Rest in Paradise Mr. James Cagney. We're still keeping this film alive and kicking 81 years later my man!
Peter Hemming another difference was that Humphrey Bogart was raised by his wealthy parents (not too wealthy but rich enough for 1899). James Cagney was raised poor. When his father died young, he got a job to support his mother, giving her every single cent of his earnings each week, and continued to care for her until she died. He was a big believer in hard work ("It was good for me. I feel sorry for the kid who has too cushy a time of it. Suddenly he has to come face-to-face with the realities of life without any mama or papa to do his thinking for him."). I prefer Cagney over Bogie for this reason. What a legend!
If they let this go another couple seconds, we could have seen Rocky get the REAL money out of the slot machine. I forget exactly, but he hit something and a bunch of dough came out. So the sandwiches and beer cost him nothing....
Man… the acting is so casual and perfect. You can’t even explain how much of a masterpiece this film is… man I’m only 25 and my pops was showing me all the OG Cagney, G. Robinson, Humphrey movies at like 4 or 5 😂
Don't think any actor ever had the screen presence or charisma of Cagney. Grew up watching re-runs of his films in the 70s, just had an awesome timeless potency on screen like you weren't watching an old b/w film but characters who could have fitted into any mob or whatever film decades later and outshone anyone with his sheer presence alone.
I give you guys another tidbit. The dead-end kids worked with Cagney, Garfield and Bogart among others. James Cagney and John Garfield were tough guys from the Lower East Side, and they could hold their own with the dead end kids. But Bogart was the son of a rich doctor or lawyer and grew up wealthy. He was not really a tough guy at all. And there's a story about him working on the movie "Dead End", hence giving the dead end kids their name, and they grabbed him and threw him on the ground and pulled his pants off between takes. But not so with Cagney or John Garfield. A real sleeper with these kids and John Garfield is the movie "They Made Me a Criminal". It's my favorite dead end kids movie. You could tell John Garfield had a real rapport with them just like Cagney.
@@patrickgogan3517 Several inflation calculators put the value of $5 in 1938 at around $90 in 2020 dollars. The $100+ in the wallet they lifted would be worth over $1800 in today's money.
Roscoe, No guessing at all , Pat O’ Brien, another great actor , as a priest in this movie , talks to Rocky and tells him to set the right example to the kids, don’t go down the same path . That’s just my opinion, yes that ending is Incredible. I remember when he says to the kids , let’s pray for a kid who couldn’t run as fast as me , alluding to the beginning, when the cops catch Rockie & not Jerry ( Pat O’Brien , which leads him from reform school & then a life of crime . Amazing acting / great movie . Rip to all these actors , I believe they are all in heaven .
You can see when the expression changes on his face, that he really was scared. Pat O'Brien's character had taken that walk before and seen all the tough guys crumble. He is partially telling him not to be tough, to save the kids, but he is also saying it because he know Cagney will crack for real and he is letting him save face when he crumbles. He starts to act tough, and then he goes to the facade for the kids, but then when the reality hits him, he breaks down for real. Very well nuanced.
@@basilmarasco1975 It's his friend Pat O'Brien allowing him the dignity of not going out as being weak. Because he is "pretending" to crack to save the kids. When in fact he actually does crack when the reality hits him. Watch the scene again. As I said it is a very nuanced bit of acting. But it's all there on his face and in his emotions/ body language, etc.
I love the way these people talked then,and of all these dead end kids Billy Halop was probably the most successful he guest starred on television programs such as The Andy Griffith Show and also was Munson on All In The Family but died in 1977 at age 57.
Also saw him in an older movie (probably only a few years after this one) called "Blues In The Night", about musicians. And yeah, saw him on the AGS and also as Munson on AITF.
@@PapagenoMF Gorcey and Hall didn't achieve top billing until after Halop left the gang. But "Slip Mahoney" and "Satch" were just absolute B-movie comedy greatness in The Bowery Boys franchise. I think their careers went better than Halop's did.
They don't make movies like this anymore or raise actors like this either one of the best ever we need to see these instead of Kardashians, big brothers house, naked island you know I hope Ted turner sees this
Damn good movie! Just finished seeing it now on a free movie streaming app I have on my Android TV Box. His childhood pal, The Priest, was in shock when he started to hear him cower. He new him best, and believed that he was gonna stick to his word by not going out like that, and was touched that he actually obliged and honored his buddy by doing it for him just before his execution, and it made him cry in "utter astonishment and thanks." I didn't lose interest for one second. I was hooked on every word of the dialogue. Every scene had plot point, and wasn't just to fill time. Great vintage, classic of a film to end the night! 🎞🕵️♂️💵🔫🎥
It was this scene were the Dead End Kids started goofing off between takes and Leo Gorcey started getting smart with Cagney. Bad move. Cagney bitch slapped Gorcey and read the boys the riot act. It was smooth sailing from then on.
James Cagney was so laid back in his acting. Not a tall man, but a big presence on screen. Still remembered for a miss quotation by most people. You Dirty Rat! I prefer. Made it Ma! Top of the world!...(White Heat).. Always find that a sad ending. You were one of a kind James Cagney. 🌟
This has to be one of the coolest scenes in movie history. I LOVE IT! I read where when they began shooting this movie, the Bowery Boys started to give Jimmy Cagney a hard time. Not as actors in the movie but in real life, in-between takes. They thought Cagney was a Hollywood cream puff. Little did they know that he grew up in Spanish Harlem in NYC. Cagney soon put dem mugs in dere place, see? And dey didn't bodder 'im, no more -- after which time he let 'em know who da boss was. Unnerstand? Orson Welles was once asked in an interview who he considered to be the greatest actor of all time. And without hesitation he said Jimmy Cagney. He said that Cagney never struck an inauthentic note when he was onscreen. And who's gonna argue with Orson Welles? Here's to you, Jimmy the C!
Magistral, esta película debe de estar entre las 3 que no debes de dejar de ver en el mundo. Se tiene que actualizar para las nuevas generaciones de jóvenes. Lo único difícil será encontrar a un actor como a CAGNEY.
True talent shines , he shone like the star that he was , a true great in todays sea of complete mediocrity. RIP James Cagney your star will always shine …….
Please look up THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY here in TH-cam, where there are several versions, some better than others (it's from 1912, and if course it's a silent movie). Cagney must have seen this picture and its star, Elmer Booth. You will then see a lot of the same mannerisms in Booth (a "likeable gangster," gesticulations, etc.) that are associated with James Cagney. And, hey! Get back with me on that!
OMG!!! Angels with Dirty Faces!!! Absolutely love this movie!!! The ending, to this movie, I'm sorry always tears me up!!! The Dead End Kids were awesome in this movie!!!
Though even in WHITE HEAT you can feel for him because he was reared by the original "mother from hell" who both set him on the wrong path and had an all but incestuous relationship with him. Cagney's Cody Jarrett is still a bad guy, yes, but even then, Cagney projects human feelings. Just an electrifying performance!
I was 11 years old when i first watched this film, grew up with the black and whites. I thought at 11 years old that Ann Sheridan was the most beautiful woman i had ever seen, and to this day 40 years later, she still is the most beautiful woman i had ever seen. Cagney and Bogart are my two all time favourite actors
Fun Fact - Back in the late thirties it was actually a safe assumption that a hand thrust into a jacket pocket contained an actual gun. During that time most suit jacket manufacturers would sew a free revolver into the pocket lining of one out of every ten suits to encourage sales.
...for further proof of this, check out, on youtube, Rackateer Rabbit, where Warner Bros. have Bugs paired with Edward G. Robinson, who, along with Cagney, was the studio's chief wiseguy!
More like bugs bunny sounds like these actors. Bugs accent was modelled off old scool new york blue collar "tough guy" accents like those in these clips. Mel Blanc (voice of bugs) explained this in an old interview. Between brooklyn and the bronx voices...bugs was chosen
Cagney and Wallace Beery were the most entertainment/money magnets of the day. Haven't ever seen a bad movie with them. I don't think there is such a thing. Even the big stars of today have lemons/bombs ( More than half are bombs).
Apparently Leo Gorcey and the other kids terrorized the set during filming. It got so bad that bogart actually locked himself in his trailer. When it came time for gorcey to film a scene with Cagney, gorcey started to screw around again. Cagney walked up to him, smashed him in the mouth, and said “don’t mess around when I’m trying to work”. That was the end of the nonsense
My mother worked at Binion's Horseshoe in Vegas one night Cagney had a meal in the restaurant. My mom had the book "Cagney by Cagney " in her purse not only did he sign the book but left her a $5 dollar bill which he also signed "Top of the world to you! Jimmy Cagney" Moms gone now but I have the book and the bill she used to use for its bookmark. I'll never forget how excited she was that day. Born in 1929 she grew up watching his movies and turned me on to them as a teen.
Top of the world you are Ma...and you too Jimmy 🙏🙏
That's nice- really!
Great story
Very cool story!
What a treasure! Great story thanks for sharing 👍
@@kelleymcbride4633 your so welcome Kelley 😀 I take great pleasure in having that memory and retelling it to people that appreciate how great Jimmy was 🙏
No one could fill the screen like James Cagney.
NOBODY LIKE CAGNEY...he dances like a dream..acted like a legend..handsome with the devils twinkle in his eye....THE BEST....theyll NEVER be another.....WALK THE WILD.STREETS JIMMY💗💗💗
Yes you make a excellent point in your comment and I agree with you,Hello how are you doing
Spoke Yiddish too. Check out "Taxi"
Cagney was showing them mugs. Remember watching when I was little. Lot a respect for Cagney.
Nobody plays a gangster like James Cagney. Growing up on the Lower East side of Manhattan without a father figure my idol was Rocky Sullivan and the rest of his GANGSTER character's. My friends and I thought we were the DEAD END KIDS from this movie. Same neighborhood, 40 something years later
CAGNEY WAS STAR QUALITY FROM THE DAY HE WAS BORN. AND VERY NEW YORK. YOU COULD NOT LOOK AWAY WHEN HE WAS ON THE SCREEN.
My dad often sent me to the store to pick up his cigarettes when I was a youngster, but this was the 1970s and by then, even 40-50 years ago, the time had passed when kids were able to purchase any alcoholic beverages even under the pretext (whether truthfully or not) of doing so for their parents.
The story I recall from a biography of Jimmy is that when Michael Curtiz said "action!" Gorcey made a wisecrack and Jimmy punched him and said "We are professionals and we don't waste these people's time!" One of the kids said, "He's no Bogart." They gave Bogie a hard time as he only played tough guys, but Cagney was the real deal. There was no one like him.
If you can catch the whole movie, the beginning scenes with Cagney & OBrien as gang kids are great. The young actor who plays Cagney at around age 13, looks & sounds exactly like him, with the fast talking and everything. .(hint--check dailymotion dot com for this & other films not free on YT)
Thanks, I have seen it many times. Cagney said in a biography that Sullivan was based on a street guy he knew when he was a kid. the movements, the shoulder-shrugging and so forth.
Whadda ya know, whadda ya say hahhaha
Indeed! Isn't Anne Sheridan gorgeous?
Yes ! A trivia thing -- in Cagney's wonderful autobiography there's a picture of him as a baby in a fancy wicker pram, turn of the century..He was the most gorgeous baby ever, I have the picture framed !
Oh man. I loved the Bowery Boys and James Cagney. People were still decent back then.
There was honour
@@earthtruthhunters1642 I think you're confusing fiction with reality. Still a great film though.
@@earthtruthhunters1642 Hahahaha honour.
@@react-- Honour has many faces
Ah, public enemy, cagney at his best! What a presence he made. One of a dying breed of film stars. 👏👍💯
Class will always shine!!!!
3:18...Nobody could do that but Cagney....
DJ I freaking love that wink. 😂
DJ James cagney is the chute sometime I love then dead end kids
What, nobody but him could've bitch-slapped little runt Leo Gorcey?
@ DJ
Really DJ, that's the truth!
Just finished seeing the movie and when I saw that wink, I started laughing and said aloud-"Ahh bastard, he made that look slick!"
If any one else tried that wink with that smirk, it would probably look cheesy and stupid.
But Cagney made it look extremely cool!
Rest in Paradise Mr. James Cagney.
We're still keeping this film alive and kicking 81 years later my man!
a Cagney a day keeps depression away
james cagney best male actor ever...
Can't argue that, Bogart was my favorite.
I thought bogie too
Let's call it a tie between Cagney and Bogart.
@@shanemiller7697 Nope 100% Cagney 51 Bogart 49….. IMO
Both Cagney and Bogart were New Yorkers, but Bogie was upper west side and Cagney was lower east side.
Peter Hemming Also, Bogart was in the Navy and Cagney was a dancer, so it all evens out.
And yet, Cagney had more innate grace. His timing, when interacting with his fellow cast mates is always captivating.
Bogart's mother was the well-known illustrator Maud Humphrey. He was headed for the Ivy League, but got expelled from prep school (Phillips Exeter?)
Peter Hemming another difference was that Humphrey Bogart was raised by his wealthy parents (not too wealthy but rich enough for 1899). James Cagney was raised poor. When his father died young, he got a job to support his mother, giving her every single cent of his earnings each week, and continued to care for her until she died. He was a big believer in hard work ("It was good for me. I feel sorry for the kid who has too cushy a time of it. Suddenly he has to come face-to-face with the realities of life without any mama or papa to do his thinking for him."). I prefer Cagney over Bogie for this reason. What a legend!
@@steelers6titles Andover...
Always great films with James Cagney in them.
If they let this go another couple seconds, we could have seen Rocky get the REAL money out of the slot machine. I forget exactly, but he hit something and a bunch of dough came out. So the sandwiches and beer cost him nothing....
I was waiting for that bit
That is cool
I think there were some coins in the machine that had not yet "dropped" down to the box. Forgot what he did to shake them loose.
Ha ha love it!
Now this was a great crossover. Personally; my favorite Cagney film
of all-time.
Man… the acting is so casual and perfect. You can’t even explain how much of a masterpiece this film is… man I’m only 25 and my pops was showing me all the OG Cagney, G. Robinson, Humphrey movies at like 4 or 5 😂
JAMES CAGNEY,one of the best of gangster character at black and white film times
Don't think any actor ever had the screen presence or charisma of Cagney. Grew up watching re-runs of his films in the 70s, just had an awesome timeless potency on screen like you weren't watching an old b/w film but characters who could have fitted into any mob or whatever film decades later and outshone anyone with his sheer presence alone.
I give you guys another tidbit. The dead-end kids worked with Cagney, Garfield and Bogart among others. James Cagney and John Garfield were tough guys from the Lower East Side, and they could hold their own with the dead end kids. But Bogart was the son of a rich doctor or lawyer and grew up wealthy. He was not really a tough guy at all. And there's a story about him working on the movie "Dead End", hence giving the dead end kids their name, and they grabbed him and threw him on the ground and pulled his pants off between takes. But not so with Cagney or John Garfield. A real sleeper with these kids and John Garfield is the movie "They Made Me a Criminal". It's my favorite dead end kids movie. You could tell John Garfield had a real rapport with them just like Cagney.
One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Left an indelible impression on me as a child
This was one of James Cagney's best movies. I can watch it over and over again and still cry at the end, every time.
It's funny I grew up in lower Manhattan in the 70's and it really didnt change a whole lot from this dynamic. Kind of warms my heart.
Will always remember Angels with Dirty Faces.. Best film of my youth.. I’m 73 now..
5 bucks for lunch for all of them? Times have changed. LOL
MickeyT54 Beer too.
5 dollars in 1938 is nearly 20$ today
@@patrickgogan3517 Several inflation calculators put the value of $5 in 1938 at around $90 in 2020 dollars. The $100+ in the wallet they lifted would be worth over $1800 in today's money.
Just getting ready to comment on that but you beat me ta the punch 😂
Back then a hamburger was .19 and a bottle of soda pop was .5.
They don't make actors like this anymore,multi talented,true gem RIP.
The end scene keeps us guessing til this day. I like to believe he did it for the kids.
Roscoe,
No guessing at all , Pat O’ Brien, another great actor , as a priest in this movie , talks to Rocky and tells him to set the right example to the kids, don’t go down the same path .
That’s just my opinion, yes that ending is Incredible. I remember when he says to the kids , let’s pray for a kid who couldn’t run as fast as me , alluding to the beginning, when the cops catch Rockie & not Jerry ( Pat O’Brien , which leads him from reform school & then a life of crime . Amazing acting / great movie . Rip to all these actors , I believe they are all in heaven .
You can see when the expression changes on his face, that he really was scared. Pat O'Brien's character had taken that walk before and seen all the tough guys crumble. He is partially telling him not to be tough, to save the kids, but he is also saying it because he know Cagney will crack for real and he is letting him save face when he crumbles. He starts to act tough, and then he goes to the facade for the kids, but then when the reality hits him, he breaks down for real. Very well nuanced.
@@MrK623 Why does he have to worry about saving face when he's 1 minute from being dead?
@@basilmarasco1975 It's his friend Pat O'Brien allowing him the dignity of not going out as being weak. Because he is "pretending" to crack to save the kids. When in fact he actually does crack when the reality hits him. Watch the scene again. As I said it is a very nuanced bit of acting. But it's all there on his face and in his emotions/ body language, etc.
@@MrK623 The actor playing the priest is not Spencer Tracy, it's Pat O'Brien.
Icon of all time James Cagney 💫👼💫 RIP 🌠💙🌠
Cagney's rare interview with Tom Snyder from 1980 has recently been posted on TH-cam...have you seen that, Dorothy?
I love the way these people talked then,and of all these dead end kids Billy Halop was probably the most successful he guest starred on television programs such as The Andy Griffith Show and also was Munson on All In The Family but died in 1977 at age 57.
Also saw him in an older movie (probably only a few years after this one) called "Blues In The Night", about musicians. And yeah, saw him on the AGS and also as Munson on AITF.
No way. Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall were easily the stars of that group.
@@PapagenoMF Gorcey and Hall didn't achieve top billing until after Halop left the gang. But "Slip Mahoney" and "Satch" were just absolute B-movie comedy greatness in The Bowery Boys franchise. I think their careers went better than Halop's did.
great movie. thanks for the upload
I have been watching these guys forever, love them!
One my favourite actors down here in Oz. Love the Golden Years of Hollywood!
Great movie, I never get tired of it.
They don't make movies like this anymore or raise actors like this either one of the best ever we need to see these instead of Kardashians, big brothers house, naked island you know I hope Ted turner sees this
Damn good movie!
Just finished seeing it now on a free movie streaming app I have on my Android TV Box.
His childhood pal, The Priest, was in shock when he started to hear him cower. He new him best, and believed that he was gonna stick to his word by not going out like that, and was touched that he actually obliged and honored his buddy by doing it for him just before his execution, and it made him cry in "utter astonishment and thanks."
I didn't lose interest for one second. I was hooked on every word of the dialogue. Every scene had plot point, and wasn't just to fill time.
Great vintage, classic of a film to end the night!
🎞🕵️♂️💵🔫🎥
I agree
James Cagney was one of the best
It was this scene were the Dead End Kids started goofing off between takes and Leo Gorcey started getting smart with Cagney. Bad move. Cagney bitch slapped Gorcey and read the boys the riot act. It was smooth sailing from then on.
Jack Grattan why are you calling James cagney a bitch
Grocery didn't call cagney a bitch
DSusan Ryan do you like the dead end kids
The bitch slap had not been invented yet, it was 1938 ...
@@basilmarasco1975 yes it did. It was called something else. I believe Cagney bitch slapped Mae Clarke with a grapefruit...
James Cagney was so laid back in his acting. Not a tall man, but a big presence on screen. Still remembered for a miss quotation by most people. You Dirty Rat! I prefer. Made it Ma! Top of the world!...(White Heat).. Always find that a sad ending. You were one of a kind James Cagney. 🌟
on film, at his insistance all the fight scenes were with guys who were bigger than Cagney 5'4" ...
A great life lesson film....one of Cagney's underated classics.....like The Strawberry Blonde with Rita Hayworth and Olivia de Havilland
Just 80 years old.
This was my favorite Cagney film ❤
Legend.!!
One of my all time favourites 💚💚💚
Before Pachino. Before De Niro. Cagney.
"C'mere suckers" while unwrapping one.
Classic.
That’s actually a piece of gum
@@cw1294 thats the beauty of being a director...
I love James Cagney .
A CLASSIC MOVIE.
JAMES CAGNEY. A SONG AND DANCE MAN. THAT GOT TO BE A GANGSTER.
He was one of a kind, he was!
This has to be one of the coolest scenes in movie history. I LOVE IT!
I read where when they began shooting this movie, the Bowery Boys started to give Jimmy Cagney a hard time. Not as actors in the movie but in real life, in-between takes.
They thought Cagney was a Hollywood cream puff. Little did they know that he grew up in Spanish Harlem in NYC.
Cagney soon put dem mugs in dere place, see? And dey didn't bodder 'im, no more -- after which time he let 'em know who da boss was. Unnerstand?
Orson Welles was once asked in an interview who he considered to be the greatest actor of all time. And without hesitation he said Jimmy Cagney. He said that Cagney never struck an inauthentic note when he was onscreen. And who's gonna argue with Orson Welles?
Here's to you, Jimmy the C!
Chris Cross forever cagney carol mirabile brisendine
Lower East side ,hard times but fondly thought of by those that lived it. Forever gone now, word to ya mother
Magistral, esta película debe de estar entre las 3 que no debes de dejar de ver en el mundo. Se tiene que actualizar para las nuevas generaciones de jóvenes. Lo único difícil será encontrar a un actor como a CAGNEY.
Exactly!🍻
Now this I love.
True talent shines , he shone like the star that he was , a true great in todays sea of complete mediocrity.
RIP James Cagney your star will always shine …….
Note how Jimmy hitches his shoulders, a mannerism which became associated with him.
Please look up THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY here in TH-cam, where there are several versions, some better than others (it's from 1912, and if course it's a silent movie). Cagney must have seen this picture and its star, Elmer Booth. You will then see a lot of the same mannerisms in Booth (a "likeable gangster," gesticulations, etc.) that are associated with James Cagney.
And, hey! Get back with me on that!
@@vincentsartain3061 Yeah. Pre-Birth of a Nation D. W. Griffith.
First Rule: Never Bother Anyone in your Neighborhood.
Cagney had some golden lessons for the kids.
Great movie , Cagney was brilliant .
The end of that movie when Cagney is dragged to the chair is so emotional
OMG!!! Angels with Dirty Faces!!! Absolutely love this movie!!! The ending, to this movie, I'm sorry always tears me up!!! The Dead End Kids were awesome in this movie!!!
I agree
Slip Mahoney - "I really depreciate that!". Shad-dap! I can't constipate with you talkin' ".
I use too watch James Cagney when I was a kid with my dad he loved him growing up
Brother wayne love this
That's what made Cagney special charming even when he was a bad guy except white heat he was mean!!!
Though even in WHITE HEAT you can feel for him because he was reared by the original "mother from hell" who both set him on the wrong path and had an all but incestuous relationship with him. Cagney's Cody Jarrett is still a bad guy, yes, but even then, Cagney projects human feelings. Just an electrifying performance!
My favourite Cagney film is White Heat " MADE IT MA, TOP OF THE WORLD " He always was top of the world...
One of those kids became a very very good poet.
Nobody says "Stick 'em up!" like Cagney.
My favorite Cagney movie.
🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Bim, looks like a young Cagney himself. Good scenes.
Great Stuff makes the Soprano
Gang like school children
Remember this. Who could forget Satch and the Bowery boys.
One of the kids in the neighborhood everyone called Satch because he had a large nose.
1960s.
Watching this on Thanksgiving 2021
I love him in gangster movies
Angels with Dirty Faces is classic Cagney.
I was 11 years old when i first watched this film, grew up with the black and whites. I thought at 11 years old that Ann Sheridan was the most beautiful woman i had ever seen, and to this day 40 years later, she still is the most beautiful woman i had ever seen. Cagney and Bogart are my two all time favourite actors
Great movie. Have it in my collection.
"Angels with dirty faces" an excellent movie the ending is the best
5 bucks to buy sandwiches, pickles and beer for 7 guys. Damn...
Here's 5$ go get sammichs pickles and beer and we'll have a feast...
I love this movie, I bought the DVD. White Heat is good too.
Fun Fact - Back in the late thirties it was actually a safe assumption that a hand thrust into a jacket pocket contained an actual gun. During that time most suit jacket manufacturers would sew a free revolver into the pocket lining of one out of every ten suits to encourage sales.
And thats how that crew was born 👍
Cagney & my cousin Par O"Brian played in a dozen movies together ,even with the Dead End kids.Angels with dirty faces.
" let's give him the woiks."
“Saaaay!! Whuts the big idea?!”
My wife and I sometimes call these “Saay!” movies when we’re in the mood to watch one 😂
Loved the sequel, "Angels with Even Filthier Souls."
Best movie ever
Cagney Rooney EG Robinson wow great actors they don't make them like that anymore
wata hear wata you say
Top of the world when it came to being the no1 gangster on the big screen..
Cagney, bogart, raft, Robinson
They were brilliant..
"and some beer" no legal drinking ages in those days.
Kids had to work in those days, real jobs too, so they too were allowed to get shit-faced.
They sure don't make em like tht no more. Bravo
Every generation has it's juvenile delinquent tough guys. Even back then.
The kids sound like Bugs Bunny.
WB's cartoon department were modeling their characters after the stars on their books...
@@philiphalpenny9761 Thanks.
...for further proof of this, check out, on youtube, Rackateer Rabbit, where Warner Bros. have Bugs paired with Edward G. Robinson, who, along with Cagney, was the studio's chief wiseguy!
More like bugs bunny sounds like these actors. Bugs accent was modelled off old scool new york blue collar "tough guy" accents like those in these clips. Mel Blanc (voice of bugs) explained this in an old interview. Between brooklyn and the bronx voices...bugs was chosen
@@rankingtrevor They also gave Bugs a lot of street smarts. See how he always got over on hicks like Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd?
Cagney and Wallace Beery were the most entertainment/money magnets of the day. Haven't ever seen a bad movie with them. I don't think there is such a thing. Even the big stars of today have lemons/bombs ( More than half are bombs).
He told the kids, " get some sandwiches, pickles and beer"
And went to get it too.... haha
OG Rocky Sullivan. Lol.
Soapy played one of Archie Bunker's friends in All in the Family.
Can you imagine some guy pulling the old gun in the coat pocket trick now? First he'd get laughed at and then....
6 people have no soul
Apparently Leo Gorcey and the other kids terrorized the set during filming. It got so bad that bogart actually locked himself in his trailer. When it came time for gorcey to film a scene with Cagney, gorcey started to screw around again. Cagney walked up to him, smashed him in the mouth, and said “don’t mess around when I’m trying to work”. That was the end of the nonsense
When I was a juvenile delinquent ha ha the dead end kids were my favorite we watched him every Saturday morning without fail