Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

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Title:	Angels With Dirty Faces [IMDb]	Film Structure Tag Cloud
Release date:	November 26, 1938
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Runtime:	97 minutes
IMDB genres:	crime, drama, film-noir, thriller
BYU holdings:	https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6768530

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A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

Plot keywords (from IMDb): anti hero, basketball, betrayal, blackmail, bowery boys, boys' choir, casino, catholic, catholic priest, cellar, childhood friend, church, corrupt lawyer, crime boss, cult film, dancing, death of main character, death row, defiance, double cross, drugstore, electric chair, execution, face slap, fingerprints, gang, gangster, gunfight, gunfire, hell's kitchen manhattan new york city, irish american, irish catholic, irish gangster, irish mob, jail, juvenile delinquent, kicked in the butt, kidnapping, lower east side manhattan new york city, main character dies, manhattan new york city, mean streets, mob hit, montage, moral crusade, mugshot, murder, new york city, newspaper, newspaper headline, nightclub, nun, orchestral music score, organ grinder, organized crime, parking garage, pickpocket, police, pool hall, priest, prologue, psychotronic, psychotronic film, radio broadcasting, redemption, reform school, rooftop, roulette, roulette wheel, shootout, social worker, spinning newspaper, state penitentiary, street gang, tear gas, telephone booth, telephone box, tenement, tough guy, urban setting, villain played by lead actor, wall safe, warehouse, younger version of character, dead end kids