When Jerry hears Rocky start to beg for his life and realizes that his old pal is coming through for him, and then looks up at Heaven, that's what really makes this scene.
The true humanity of Rocky surfaces at the chair. He knew his life was wasted. He also knew if there was a way to save his soul it was to help those many street kids that looked up to him. Street toughness was your identification card. Without it, you were a victim, and or a coward. Rocky gave them his greatest gift as he was pleading and sobbing at the chair...his EGO..
You mean that he gave up his ego, not gave them his ego, don't you? The reverend didn't want Rocky to give the dead end kids the ego that he'd been carrying around, because they would've then become just like him, and that's what the reverend didn't want. By acting the coward, Rocky would've shown the kids how his ego didn't pay off in the end. I think though that it's debatable on wether Rocky decided last minute to change his mind and save the kids from a life of crime, or that he really broke down last minute because it hit him how his inevitable death was less than a minute away. The latter is a possibility because Rocky was so adamant about not acting the coward, and he then last minute lost control of everything because he knew his imminent death was inevitable. It may have been that rather than him suddenly changing his mind last second.
@@alvexok5523 People online are all saying he definitely did it for the kids like it was a fact. How would you be if you didn't want to die and people were about to electrocute you? Cagney himself said it's up to the audience to decide. I've seen this movie since I was a kid long ago and I'm still not positive he wasn't really afraid.
@@susanb2015, well, then the question is, how many people in history going to the chair have freaked out last second like Cagney supposedly pretended to? And how many have kept a quiet brave stance every second til they pulled the switch? I don't think that too many people could ever do the latter.
@@susanb2015, he had a good reason to do it, even if he did fake his terror, it was to teach kids of the future not to admire a criminal no matter how tough he was.
@@alvexok5523 It's just that when I saw this on TV as a teen in the 80s you made your own judgement. On this thing everyone is saying he did it for the kids. That is most logical but we don't really know do we?
BTW, true fact: The scene in Cagney's cell when O'Brien visits him and tries to talk him into the heroics he eventually does, was shot in ONE TAKE. That's right one continuous almost 7 minute take. No "Take 2", nothing. When you're in the zone...
Same. Watching old films it's usually slightly jarring at first that their performances are more theatrical, much different from more natural acting by method actors of modern era (1960+). But Cagney's agonising screams really hit like a freight train, it's really scary and sounds very realistic. Back in 1938 this must have had incredible effect on watchers.
I have watched this film too many times to count. Absolutely amazing acting. Not only do you watch the film, you also get to feel it. Cagney was an outstanding actor, I have never seen him in a bad movie. No ways could any actors compete with this today, there was a magic that sadly has been lost in the modern era. Loved you James Cagney, departed but never forgotten.
I honestly think that Rocky did it for the kids and for his old friend Jerry. I guess they only reason he said no to Jerry was because he was too proud and tough do actually say yes to him face to face. But think about it everything that Rocky has done was for Jerry. he killed his two business partners who threaten to kill Jerry to save his life and even at the beginning of the movie he took the blame all for himself and even throughout the movie you can tell that despite after Jerry's declaration to take down the mob boss including Rocky, he nonetheless remained loyal to Jerry despite being two complete opposites. You can tell by Ricky's face expression before he goes to the chair that he was acting in my point of view I think that Rocky knew that he's gonna die either way that he already was gonna lose everything even his legacy so therefore there was no point of holding on to it anymore further more cause he also saw a better future for the dead end kids and still respect his friend Jerry he though the last good and noble thing he could do to redeem himself was by dying yellow and put down the curtains of his already dead end legacy. He couldn't help Jerry's cause as a gangster but he could help him as an old friend. RIP Rocky Suvillian in the end he really was an angel with a dirty face like the title says
In the radio version, when he sees the chair, Rocky turns to Father Jerry and says, "ok." Maybe he did really care about the kids and did not want them to end up like him. I also love the symbolism of the final scene with Father Jerry leading the Dead End kids up into the light.
Rʏᴜ Uᴄʜɪʜᴀ• Nɪɢʜᴛᴡɪɴɢ I noticed that twelve seconds (0:57-1:09) elapsed between the close-up of Rocky's hands being pried loose from the radiator by the guards and the moment the executioner pulls the switch that activates the electric chair. That would suggest that it took the guards around twelve seconds to get Rocky in the chair, strap him in, and attach the electrodes to him. Frankly, that doesn't make sense. I should think that it would take at least a few minutes to prepare a condemned person for the shock that will end his life, certainly not twelve seconds. Well, what do you expect? The people who write the scripts for the movies don't always think when they try to work out the plots. Look at "Citizen Kane" for example. Everybody in the film knows about the last word spoken by Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) before he died: "Rosebud." But, as the opening scene shows, Kane is all alone in his room (he is in bed at the time) when he says it, so how could anyone else know what his final word was? Of course, since a nurse comes into the room after Kane passes away, some fans of the movie have suggested that she heard him speaking the word as she was passing by his bedroom door, but we don't know that for sure. Getting back to "Angels With Dirty Faces," I personally don't think that Rocky should have received the death penalty for killing his former partners in crime, since they were planning on killing Rocky's friend, Father Connelly (Pat O'Brien), to stop his campaign against crime and political graft in the city. In other words, those crooks basically got what was coming to them. Therefore, Rocky could have pleaded justifiable homicide (despite his lengthy criminal record), or at least, gotten off with manslaughter. But, I guess he ruined any chance of mercy when, in the final shootout, he killed that policeman. Nobody likes cop-killers, you know.
Cagney said in a number of interviews in the ensuing years (he lived 48 years past the film's release) that Rocky's "cowardice" is ambiguous, and that this was for the best. I happen to lean toward the putting-on-an-act theory. His begging and pleading seem to be exaggerated so that there can be no doubt- at least in the newspaper reporters' minds- that he's "turned yellow." But it is not in keeping with his character.
@@mackb909, I'm not sure if Rocky actually put on an act of turning yellow. I think that in spite of what he and the reverend previously discussed, I think that he really broke down that last minute before he died when they put him in the chair. Even the toughest guy in the world will freak out like that when knowing that imminent death is one minute away and that there's nothing he can do about it. That doesn't make you a coward.
Rocky sacrifices his ego and reputation to save the children Extremely powerful scene I couldn’t imagine what this was like in the movies back in the ol’ days
@@nuyoricanbrooklyn4231 Rockie Sullivan turn yellow l don't think so.The priest he were child hood friends that grew up together. and he loved him.. As a matter of fact he went to reform school for getting Court for a petty theft while trying to saving the priest life. And as for the dead end kids he loved them too and there wasn't anything that he wouldn't do for them or Peg.
@ Zatoichi Ichi I was referring to a interview I saw a while back were they asked James Cagney if rocky really turned yellow at the end, and he said it was intentionally left up to us to decide if he did or he didn’t turn yellow. James Cagney in real life didn’t like making just gangster movies, for instance, towards the end of public enemy he says “I aint so tough”
@@nuyoricanbrooklyn4231 l know all this the production Studios fell in love with his interpretation as a gangster character. Beside the fact that no one could played one better than him except for Humphrey Bogart.The production Studios tried to type casting him. But James Cagney was to talented to be Typecasted on top of the fact that he didn't like just doing gangster movie.
It is actually 80 years after this scene was released and still people remember and talk about it! I know Boys Town won the Oscar in 1938 as best film but in my opinion, Angels With Dirty Faces was the far better film!
He swallowed his pride and died a hero by acting like a coward to help free the boys from looking up to gangsters. In other words, he sacrificed himself for the greater good. That's pretty cool.
I can debate it...I know what urnsaying but there was more to it...if its a totally act hes a monster. He had to repent deep down to not be a monster. Deep deep scene man...rip Cagney..So it was both...
Its left ambiguous on purpose, its really whatever the viewer thinks, we wont know 100% even the directors and actors said in interviews that its left to be decided by each viewer, but I always thought he just “turned yellow” tbh but i can see how it could be the other one too
@@KD_Smoove Agreed. But the scene was so powerful that if you know he was faking it , Rocky would look like a monster because it was done so well and deep down Rocky was good. I mean he was in the chair because he killed the men who wanted to kill his life long friend.
In the scene before Pat OBrien had asked Cagney to die a coward to keep the boys from thinking he was a hero. Cagney said no, he would not do that for anyone
After the movie was out for a while, a kid came up to Cagney and asked, "Did you do it for Father?" Cagney said, "What do you think?" He never revealed whether he was truly yellow or not in that scene.
@@bobbyfrancis8957, I think that Cagney's character Rocky really did break down last minute when it hit him that his imminent death was inevitable. Rocky was just too adamant about not wanting to show anyone out there that he was a coward, and I don't think that he would then change his mind last second. He really broke down, and I think that even the toughest guy will break down when it hits him that he will definitely die in one minute and that there's no way out of it. That doesn't make you a coward. I know that alot of people are debating this though. They're debating it on this UA-cam video comment section, and I've read that people debated it back in the 1930s when this movie came out. Like you said, Cagney told everyone "you decide".
I think Cagney played it as he really was afraid at the end. He left it open for viewers to decide, that is what what I decide. The real lesson of the movie is don't be a fool and get involved in a life of crime hurting others. It is nothing that should be glamorized. That is IMO an even stronger lesson than Rocky wanting to help the kids. He was a bad person who instead of working at improving himself and educating himself, working at legit jobs in society, decided to hurt others to make money, make things better for himself in his own mind. That is what crime is. Hurting someone. Stealing, assaulting, etc. Movies that glamorize crime make me laugh, anyway. They should show real life mobsters in jail for decades or dead killed in younger years, etc. at the end of those movies. That is reality. Nothing cool about committing crimes. It is choosing to be selfish in life. And lazy. Let's face it. Why should I have to work when I can con those people online, or go take that old guy's wallet or push down that lady and take her car. Then I can have money and lend it to the poor people in my neighborhood and charge them outrageous interest. They will pay. If not I will get my friend to break their legs or face. Then I will have many of the poor people's money in my neighborhood and I will be rich. Crime is not cool. How about we take your car, or your home, etc? This is a great film. I wanted to think Cagney did it for the kids, but the by far stronger and perceptive revelation is that Rocky was a piece of sh__ who chose to better his own life by hurting people. He died yellow. That is far better for the kids, as well. The other guy became a priest living a modest life, likely pretty poor money wise, but living a life helping others. He was happy in life, his greedy, lazy, yellow friend wasn't. That is my take on it. Cagney wanted to reveal that living a life of crime is for those who are weak.
Alot of street kids in the city were really like that in the early 1900s. When looking at that, and how people were in general back then, it makes it seem like people really were tougher back then.
My grandfather worked for the Warner Bros. studio, and was there when this movie was made. During the 70s, my late brother had a rock n roll band, the name of which was The Dirty Angels, which they got from the title of this movie. They recorded two albums, and they played a very famous rock club located on the Bowery, NYC: CBGBs. I was there for that, and I even sang a number with the band (Elvis' "Jailhouse Rock"). When my brother died, about 4 years ago, he tried to keep me away from his deathbed because he knew I was going to read from the Bible to him. He didn't want to hear me pray for him. The day after Elvis died (August 17th., 1977), my brother and I (and a couple of other people) were in a place called Studio 914. This was where Bruce Springsteen recorded the song-'Born To Run'.
I still cry at seeing the end of this film even today. I liked Cagney as a Gangster best but sometimes I do not want to see him loosing. So from law breaking to law inforcing I like G Men when he is on the good side in a Gangster film where he plays an ex lawyer turned FBI agent and private eye.
To play Rocky, Cagney drew on his memories of growing up in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York. His main inspiration was a drug-addicted pimp, who stood on a street corner all day hitching his trousers, twitching his neck, and repeating: "Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!" Those mannerisms came back to haunt Cagney, who later wrote in his autobiography: "I did those gestures maybe six times in the picture. That was over thirty years ago - and the impressionists have been doing me doing him ever since."[
Look up his AFI Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech here on UA-cam. Toward the end of the speech he recollects on that character who stood on the corner hitching his pants, twitching his neck and snapping his fingers, as well as some other kids he grew up with, reciting their first and last names after so many years, and thanked them all for that "wee bit of the gutter in me, without which, I most likely wouldn't be standing here tonight".
@@basilmarasco1975 Yes, Yorkville is located in Manhattan. It is a section in the upper east side; 79th st to 96th st, from 3rd ave to the east river. 79th and 96th st are called east 79th st and east 96 st because it is part of those streets that are located east of central park (5th ave borders east side of central park)
This movie had me in tears as a youth at 7yrs,the sacrifices you take to influence not to walk in his footsteps as a GANGSTER,I remember this scene like it was yesterday.
good friends were cagney and Pat O'Brien,......here father jerry is lamenting that because he couldnt run as fast as him...he was caught and put into the system that MADE HIM a criminal...in the end rocky went coward NOT for the kids.....but for his best and only friend father jerry.....he loved him...and he couldnt leave the earth...disappointing him....it was his way of telling his buddy that his life was a lie...and the little boy was still there....something he couldnt do face to face..... Cagney is brilliant here...because he plays the entire movie as a gangster/killer...yet in 30 seconds gets a few of you to question his real motives....maybe Orson Wells was right...that.... Cagney was the greatest actor ever to appear in film!!
One of the best endings and best scenes in movie history. Cagney is among the greatest of all time but Pat O'Brien was as fine a supporting actor as there was during the 30s and 40s.
That's right, Cagney did deserve an Oscar for his performance of Rocky Sullivan. Do you think that Rocky decided last minute to show the dead end kids that they shouldn't look up to him? Or do you think that Rocky really did break down because it suddenly hit him that his inevitable death was in less than a minute?
Allen Richards, judging from that look of mischievous rebellion that crosses his face while walking to the chair, definitely he did it for the kids. Cagney even slyly made Rocky so tough, he couldn’t really even convincingly act yellow. In silhouette the only words he said were “I don’t want to die,” “No,” and “Please!” The rest was bizarre otherworldly sounds never heard from a man before or since. It’s an amazing scene.
@@williamfoley3544, they were bizarre otherworldly sounds. That's why I think that maybe he really cracked and broke down, because he couldn't convincingly act yellow. He really did suddenly get hit with fear because until that last minute, he didn't believe that he was really going to die any second. He spent most of his life until that last minute believing that he was invincible and bulletproof, and that he was too tough for anyone or anything to take him down. On the other hand though, maybe it was an act to teach the kids not to admire a criminal. I'm not 100% sure.
What a great movie! Cagney was brilliant, and was there ever anyone in cinematic history who could play a priest better than Pat O'Brien? I don't think so. His face when Rocky starts sobbing is movie magic. The tear coming down his cheek is one of cinema's greatest moments.
Sure he did...or they wouldn't have used the scene where the priest asked him to do it for the kids. Boss Nass must have missed most of a true classic to come to that brain dead coclusion.
+thebaddog410 This scene always got to me. When Father O'Brien spoke to him about showing the kind of bravado only he and him and God knew. He wanted to save the lives and the souls of those boys so he asked Rocky to die yellow. This scene is extremely powerful and shows the masterpiece this film truly is.
What a totally moving clip. I steamed up my glasses with tears. Oh how I love these old movies. I have to thank my mother in law for that. She introduced me to Edward G many years before you tube. I am so sorry she missed this fine medium.
I really liked Edward G. Robinson's 1931 film "Smart money". Cagney had more of a secondary role in that film, but I think that part of that is because that film was made before "Public enemy" which was basically the first film where Cagney really pulled a major role and came out onto his own. Both Robinson and Cagney were great actors. Robinson in "Smart money" played a pretty cool and confident, yet streetsmart guy. He wasn't as temperamental as most of Cagney's characters but was just as tough.
One of the greatest actors to ever of delivered a performance, I must have watched this movie 20 times over the years and this closing scene always brings a lump to my throat and tear to my eye. The look of defiance in his eyes as he walks to the chair tells everything, but he knows his was a wasted life and the kids will follow him in to the same end if he doesn't do this one last thing , but as JC said , you have to decide yourself . Watch the Parkinson BBC interview of JC and POB when they were old men, , its so good.
Cagney deserved the best actor Oscar that year (1938). Tracy only won because he portrayed a priest, and the Academy preferred to give the Oscar to a priest instead of a gangster
A real true home, he didn't let Jerry down knowing the Bowery boys wouldn't respect that he went out yellow, so he care for the boys also awesome flick classic!
Did you see the look in his eyes ? . Walking into the chamber ! He had absolutely no fear of death. ! .He did it for father Jerry His life long friend... And the kids ! So they don't grow up like he did !
Now that's an ending. It's funny how people speculate what Rocky's real motive was. IT'S A MOVIE! It's meant to be ambiguous. That's what makes it art. I can't think of another example in film or literature what the act of redemption is left with a question mark. That's what makes it so brilliant.
That's a great final line. The only reason Fr. Jerry didn't fry in that chair is because he was fast. Other than that, he was just like Rocky and he's only a priest and not a crook due to a trivial matter. It helps you see the best in Rocky and the humility of Fr. Jerry.
I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. We don't know for sure that Father Jerry became a priest simply because, unlike his friend, Rocky, he managed to escape being caught by the police after he and Rocky (both young boys at the time) tried to steal pens from a railroad freight car. If Jerry was caught and sent to reform school with Rocky, who's to say that he wouldn't have met a priest and/or a nun who would read the Bible to him and implant the word of God within him? Suppose Jerry decided to except God, but Rocky rejected Him? The results would be the same, Rocky would become a criminal and Jerry would become a priest. I once had a book about how the movies portray historical events, or how they deal with real-life situations, like crime, for example. (I don't remember the title of the book.) In the chapter on crime films, there was a subchapter about "Angels With Dirty Faces." In it, the author rejected the suggestion that if Rocky had escaped from the cops with Jerry, he could have been saved from a life of crime as well. The author said he didn't "buy it," because basically, Rocky "had the gallows mark on him" from the day he was born. In other words, Rocky was such a rotten kid, that it really didn't matter whether or not he was arrested for that petty offense, he would've became a big-shot gangster and racketeer anyhow.
All time great they don't make them like this anymore shame I guess times change people want different things in a movie...rocky went out like he came in fighting but at the end for the right reasons just a great film here to you rocky...
As I was about to go outside on Sunday afternoons after church to play my father would say "hey there's a good movie on today" that was my clue to stay and watch it with him. a drama or Western....good times. I'm so grateful for him 🙌
James Cagney is one of my favorite actors and no matter what role he may play he will always give you a command performance. The same goes for Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, and Ann Sheridan, and The dead end kids. That movie was not only good. It was a tearjerker at the end.
The irony is unbelievable. James Cagney, without doubt perhaps the finest gangster in film history, was also it's most reluctant. He was a patriot who loved his country; a song n' dance man to the max. He thought Clark Cable was the ultimate American symbol of Masculinity and Duke Wayne its cowboy heart. In 1938 for "Angels with Dirty Faces" and 1949 for "White Heat", Cagney was essentially penalized because Hollywood could NOT allow an Oscar to be given to a truly hardcore criminal. Spencer Tracy, a close friend, and Edmund O'Brien both benefited from this bias. Virginia Mayo said it best about the Oscar going to O'Brien for "DOA": Who was better really? There's no way that anyone beat Jimmy's performance as Cody Jarrett...NO WAY. No one deserved it more.
Cagney dies in a lot of his movies, this probably being the most emotional ending of all his movies. I also liked the ending of White Heat, the movie where he had a mother complex. As he's getting ready to go up in flames, he yells out, "made it ma, top of the world"!
Here is my honest version. The character Rocky had been close to death most of his life by living a life of gun crime, so being killed wasn’t a deterrent for him, he simply accepted it as a possibility that may come his way through being a Gangster. Going to the chair at the end would have been sad for him, and he would have also been fearful about the unknown, was he about to meet his maker? Or was he about to simply never see the light of day again? Either way, I think his stubborn pride and ego was enough to get him through the execution in a dignified and tough guy way. However, deep down he did have a conscience and he probably thought that playing the coward was the right thing to do before he may meet his maker. When faced with death, he really had nothing to lose, only his silly pride which let’s face it, who cares what imperfect people think of you anyway, they’re simply not worth your worry, only your creator deserves that.
0:32 I think at the end of his life and knowing he will die, he was afraid as we see and hear him pleading for his life. I actually think that is how Cagney envisioned the character, as well. Nothing glamorous or desirable for children to idolize in the life of a felon with a long criminal past. That is the true way this film ends, IMO.
One of the best scenes in movie 🎬 history it takes a real man to die like he did remorseful cagney cared and loved those boys at the end he didn't die like a coward he died with humbleness that's what God wanted to hear him say when cagney cried out don't let me burn in hell which was so powerful his evilness left him so God can take his soul classic scene R I P mr.cagney we all love and miss you dearly.
Sure don't make classics like this anymore but 84 years later ,Still a poignant scene to watch ,James Cagney to Pat O'Brien & The rest of the classic cast was & were brilliant in this 1938 classic,Still a powerful scene in today's world to when it originally came out in 1938 ,Still shed tears watching this scene 🥺😥It's Hollywood Gold 🪙 at its most brilliant 🪙
Any GH fans here? I sense that Maurice Benard who plays gangster Sonny Corinthos borrowed a great deal from James Cagney, that little shoulder shrug was SO Sonny.
When Jerry hears Rocky start to beg for his life and realizes that his old pal is coming through for him, and then looks up at Heaven, that's what really makes this scene.
When they say "They don't make 'em like that anymore" this is exactly what they're talking about. Brilliant movie - brilliant Cagney!
Very true
Amen.
This movie is pushing 90 years old and still one of the greatest endings ever. Brilliant!!!
"Alright fellas, let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could..."
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The greatest ending line of any movie ever!
One of the greatest lines in movie history ❤️
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Cagney is brilliant
No greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. -John 15:13
Well said.
One of my favorite movies as a kid and still is. Cagney, O'Brien, Bogart, Sheridan, The Dead End Kids...now that's a cast man.
No one is better than Cagney and most aren't ever close. He was a gift to us all.
The true humanity of Rocky surfaces at the chair. He knew his life was wasted. He also knew if there was a way to save his soul it was to help those many street kids that looked up to him. Street toughness was your identification card. Without it, you were a victim, and or a coward. Rocky gave them his greatest gift as he was pleading and sobbing at the chair...his EGO..
You mean that he gave up his ego, not gave them his ego, don't you? The reverend didn't want Rocky to give the dead end kids the ego that he'd been carrying around, because they would've then become just like him, and that's what the reverend didn't want. By acting the coward, Rocky would've shown the kids how his ego didn't pay off in the end. I think though that it's debatable on wether Rocky decided last minute to change his mind and save the kids from a life of crime, or that he really broke down last minute because it hit him how his inevitable death was less than a minute away. The latter is a possibility because Rocky was so adamant about not acting the coward, and he then last minute lost control of everything because he knew his imminent death was inevitable. It may have been that rather than him suddenly changing his mind last second.
@@alvexok5523 People online are all saying he definitely did it for the kids like it was a fact. How would you be if you didn't want to die and people were about to electrocute you? Cagney himself said it's up to the audience to decide. I've seen this movie since I was a kid long ago and I'm still not positive he wasn't really afraid.
@@susanb2015, well, then the question is, how many people in history going to the chair have freaked out last second like Cagney supposedly pretended to? And how many have kept a quiet brave stance every second til they pulled the switch? I don't think that too many people could ever do the latter.
@@susanb2015, he had a good reason to do it, even if he did fake his terror, it was to teach kids of the future not to admire a criminal no matter how tough he was.
@@alvexok5523 It's just that when I saw this on TV as a teen in the 80s you made your own judgement. On this thing everyone is saying he did it for the kids. That is most logical but we don't really know do we?
I still cry over this scene ... one of the best in film history
Totally agree I cry also Stephanie ❤
Rocky lived like a Sinner, but died as a Saint....
Such an amazing final line. The work they do with just light and shadow as well is beautiful.
BTW, true fact: The scene in Cagney's cell when O'Brien visits him and tries to talk him into the heroics he eventually does, was shot in ONE TAKE. That's right one continuous almost 7 minute take. No "Take 2", nothing. When you're in the zone...
I am watching this in 2018 and Cagney`s agonised screams for clemency resound with power, The effect in Cinemas in 1938 must have been ten fold...
Same. Watching old films it's usually slightly jarring at first that their performances are more theatrical, much different from more natural acting by method actors of modern era (1960+). But Cagney's agonising screams really hit like a freight train, it's really scary and sounds very realistic. Back in 1938 this must have had incredible effect on watchers.
I have watched this film too many times to count. Absolutely amazing acting. Not only do you watch the film, you also get to feel it. Cagney was an outstanding actor, I have never seen him in a bad movie.
No ways could any actors compete with this today, there was a magic that sadly has been lost in the modern era. Loved you James Cagney, departed but never forgotten.
Did he or didn't he really turn yellow?
@@leroykevin You are supposed to decide that for yourself. Although most people online say he did it for the kids we really don't know for sure do we?
@@susanb2015 When asked that question over the course of time, Cagney always said, *You* decide."
@@basilmarasco1975 Yes. I know. I saw the movie on antenna TV as a teenager in the 80s thanks to my dad and heard Cagney say that.
As good as this film is The Public Enemy is his best film , White Heat is 2nd , this is 3rd , Man Of A Thousand Faces is 4th & Each Dawn I Die is 5th
This film is 84 years and as great as any film made today in 2021
I honestly think that Rocky did it for the kids and for his old friend Jerry. I guess they only reason he said no to Jerry was because he was too proud and tough do actually say yes to him face to face. But think about it everything that Rocky has done was for Jerry. he killed his two business partners who threaten to kill Jerry to save his life and even at the beginning of the movie he took the blame all for himself and even throughout the movie you can tell that despite after Jerry's declaration to take down the mob boss including Rocky, he nonetheless remained loyal to Jerry despite being two complete opposites. You can tell by Ricky's face expression before he goes to the chair that he was acting in my point of view I think that Rocky knew that he's gonna die either way that he already was gonna lose everything even his legacy so therefore there was no point of holding on to it anymore further more cause he also saw a better future for the dead end kids and still respect his friend Jerry he though the last good and noble thing he could do to redeem himself was by dying yellow and put down the curtains of his already dead end legacy. He couldn't help Jerry's cause as a gangster but he could help him as an old friend. RIP Rocky Suvillian in the end he really was an angel with a dirty face like the title says
In the radio version, when he sees the chair, Rocky turns to Father Jerry and says, "ok." Maybe he did really care about the kids and did not want them to end up like him. I also love the symbolism of the final scene with Father Jerry leading the Dead End kids up into the light.
Rʏᴜ Uᴄʜɪʜᴀ• Nɪɢʜᴛᴡɪɴɢ I noticed that twelve seconds (0:57-1:09) elapsed between the close-up of Rocky's hands being pried loose from the radiator by the guards and the moment the executioner pulls the switch that activates the electric chair. That would suggest that it took the guards around twelve seconds to get Rocky in the chair, strap him in, and attach the electrodes to him. Frankly, that doesn't make sense. I should think that it would take at least a few minutes to prepare a condemned person for the shock that will end his life, certainly not twelve seconds.
Well, what do you expect? The people who write the scripts for the movies don't always think when they try to work out the plots. Look at "Citizen Kane" for example. Everybody in the film knows about the last word spoken by Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) before he died: "Rosebud." But, as the opening scene shows, Kane is all alone in his room (he is in bed at the time) when he says it, so how could anyone else know what his final word was? Of course, since a nurse comes into the room after Kane passes away, some fans of the movie have suggested that she heard him speaking the word as she was passing by his bedroom door, but we don't know that for sure.
Getting back to "Angels With Dirty Faces," I personally don't think that Rocky should have received the death penalty for killing his former partners in crime, since they were planning on killing Rocky's friend, Father Connelly (Pat O'Brien), to stop his campaign against crime and political graft in the city. In other words, those crooks basically got what was coming to them. Therefore, Rocky could have pleaded justifiable homicide (despite his lengthy criminal record), or at least, gotten off with manslaughter. But, I guess he ruined any chance of mercy when, in the final shootout, he killed that policeman. Nobody likes cop-killers, you know.
What a PUSSY ...
Cagney said in a number of interviews in the ensuing years (he lived 48 years past the film's release) that Rocky's "cowardice" is ambiguous, and that this was for the best. I happen to lean toward the putting-on-an-act theory. His begging and pleading seem to be exaggerated so that there can be no doubt- at least in the newspaper reporters' minds- that he's "turned yellow." But it is not in keeping with his character.
@@mackb909, I'm not sure if Rocky actually put on an act of turning yellow. I think that in spite of what he and the reverend previously discussed, I think that he really broke down that last minute before he died when they put him in the chair. Even the toughest guy in the world will freak out like that when knowing that imminent death is one minute away and that there's nothing he can do about it. That doesn't make you a coward.
Freeze at 0:24. Image of Cagney looking directly at the camera is priceless.
I got Malcolm McDowell vibes from him there!
One of the greatest movies EVER
Rocky sacrifices his ego and reputation to save the children
Extremely powerful scene
I couldn’t imagine what this was like in the movies back in the ol’ days
@ Jules
You didn’t know if he really turned yellow or
not at the end. They left it for you to decide.
Per James Cagney
@@nuyoricanbrooklyn4231 Rockie Sullivan turn yellow l don't think so.The priest he were child hood friends that grew up together. and he loved him.. As a matter of fact he went to reform school for getting Court for a petty theft while trying to saving the priest life. And as for the dead end kids he loved them too and there wasn't anything that he wouldn't do for them or Peg.
@ Zatoichi Ichi
I was referring to a interview I saw a while back were they asked James Cagney if rocky really turned yellow at the end, and he said it was intentionally left up to us to decide if he did or he didn’t turn yellow. James Cagney in real life didn’t like making just gangster movies, for instance, towards the end of public enemy he says “I aint so tough”
@@nuyoricanbrooklyn4231 l know all this the production Studios fell in love with his interpretation as a gangster character. Beside the fact that no one could played one better than him except for Humphrey Bogart.The production Studios tried to type casting him. But James Cagney was to talented to be Typecasted on top of the fact that he didn't like just doing gangster movie.
A great and powerfull film. From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it .
When he looks away for a split second at 2:39 because he wants to tell them what really happened...chills.
One of his best scenes ever!!
It is actually 80 years after this scene was released and still people remember and talk about it! I know Boys Town won the Oscar in 1938 as best film but in my opinion, Angels With Dirty Faces was the far better film!
No question!
TRACY WON BEST actor should of been Cagney
There hasn't been another James Cagney and there won't be.
I really don’t know why anyone would give a thumbs down. This is the best ever endings in movie history still to this day.
He did what any true gangster would do and did it for the kids
He swallowed his pride and died a hero by acting like a coward to help free the boys from looking up to gangsters. In other words, he sacrificed himself for the greater good. That's pretty cool.
It's obvious that he did it for his ol' pal jerry, it doesn't even need a debate.
In the radio drama that also had James Cagney and Pat O'brien, Rocky finally agrees to do it.
I can debate it...I know what urnsaying but there was more to it...if its a totally act hes a monster. He had to repent deep down to not be a monster. Deep deep scene man...rip Cagney..So it was both...
Its left ambiguous on purpose, its really whatever the viewer thinks, we wont know 100% even the directors and actors said in interviews that its left to be decided by each viewer, but I always thought he just “turned yellow” tbh but i can see how it could be the other one too
@@KD_Smoove Agreed. But the scene was so powerful that if you know he was faking it , Rocky would look like a monster because it was done so well and deep down Rocky was good. I mean he was in the chair because he killed the men who wanted to kill his life long friend.
Oh this last scene always makes me cry :( Such a great movie thanks for posting !
Star U R right on!!
Me too.
It makes me cry too. One of the most intensely felt agonizing scenes I've ever seen.
In the scene before Pat OBrien had asked Cagney to die a coward to keep the boys from thinking he was a hero. Cagney said no, he would not do that for anyone
Greatest scene ever!!
i totally agree
+yammyrob Thanks yammyrob!!
You gotta love the symbolism at the end. Father Jerry leading the kids out of the darkness and up into the light.
Keith Dean 👍
look at his face he was not scared he did it for the KIDS
After the movie was out for a while, a kid came up to Cagney and asked, "Did you do it for Father?" Cagney said, "What do you think?" He never revealed whether he was truly yellow or not in that scene.
Yes, Cagney even said in his autobiography, "You decide."
@@bobbyfrancis8957, I think that Cagney's character Rocky really did break down last minute when it hit him that his imminent death was inevitable. Rocky was just too adamant about not wanting to show anyone out there that he was a coward, and I don't think that he would then change his mind last second. He really broke down, and I think that even the toughest guy will break down when it hits him that he will definitely die in one minute and that there's no way out of it. That doesn't make you a coward.
I know that alot of people are debating this though. They're debating it on this UA-cam video comment section, and I've read that people debated it back in the 1930s when this movie came out. Like you said, Cagney told everyone "you decide".
Alvex Ok And how powerful was James Cagneys acting that people are STILL debating this scene 82 years after the film came out?
I think Cagney played it as he really was afraid at the end. He left it open for viewers to decide, that is what what I decide. The real lesson of the movie is don't be a fool and get involved in a life of crime hurting others. It is nothing that should be glamorized. That is IMO an even stronger lesson than Rocky wanting to help the kids. He was a bad person who instead of working at improving himself and educating himself, working at legit jobs in society, decided to hurt others to make money, make things better for himself in his own mind.
That is what crime is. Hurting someone. Stealing, assaulting, etc.
Movies that glamorize crime make me laugh, anyway. They should show real life mobsters in jail for decades or dead killed in younger years, etc. at the end of those movies. That is reality. Nothing cool about committing crimes. It is choosing to be selfish in life. And lazy. Let's face it. Why should I have to work when I can con those people online, or go take that old guy's wallet or push down that lady and take her car. Then I can have money and lend it to the poor people in my neighborhood and charge them outrageous interest. They will pay. If not I will get my friend to break their legs or face. Then I will have many of the poor people's money in my neighborhood and I will be rich.
Crime is not cool. How about we take your car, or your home, etc? This is a great film. I wanted to think Cagney did it for the kids, but the by far stronger and perceptive revelation is that Rocky was a piece of sh__ who chose to better his own life by hurting people. He died yellow. That is far better for the kids, as well.
The other guy became a priest living a modest life, likely pretty poor money wise, but living a life helping others. He was happy in life, his greedy, lazy, yellow friend wasn't. That is my take on it. Cagney wanted to reveal that living a life of crime is for those who are weak.
Love this film - James Cagney was the real deal and those Dead End Kids had me in stitches.
THIS FILM IS TOP DRAWER !!!!!!!
Alot of street kids in the city were really like that in the early 1900s. When looking at that, and how people were in general back then, it makes it seem like people really were tougher back then.
Rest in peace Mr. Cagney, you will be and forever in my thoughts and heart, God speed!
An absolute classic. The ending always makes me cry.....I'm a 53 year old man!
Alright fellas, let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could...
In other words, there, but for the grace of God, go I.
Jerry Mungo Yes, let’s drag religion into it. Without that context it wouldn’t work.
@@lordoshower3478 the guy who says it is literally a priest
This is such a good movie. I love that last line. They were really the same person pretty much, and just went different paths.
My grandfather worked for the Warner Bros. studio, and was there when this movie was made. During the 70s, my late brother had a rock n roll band, the name of which was The Dirty Angels, which they got from the title of this movie. They recorded two albums, and they played a very famous rock club located on the Bowery, NYC: CBGBs. I was there for that, and I even sang a number with the band (Elvis' "Jailhouse Rock"). When my brother died, about 4 years ago, he tried to keep me away from his deathbed because he knew I was going to read from the Bible to him. He didn't want to hear me pray for him. The day after Elvis died (August 17th., 1977), my brother and I (and a couple of other people) were in a place called Studio 914. This was where Bruce Springsteen recorded the song-'Born To Run'.
Till this day people don't know for sure if it was an act or not. Just shows the brilliance of Cagney.
Top five movie of all time.
Flawless movie, with a powerful ending. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I still cry at seeing the end of this film even today. I liked Cagney as a Gangster best but sometimes I do not want to see him loosing. So from law breaking to law inforcing I like G Men when he is on the good side in a Gangster film where he plays an ex lawyer turned FBI agent and private eye.
To play Rocky, Cagney drew on his memories of growing up in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York. His main inspiration was a drug-addicted pimp, who stood on a street corner all day hitching his trousers, twitching his neck, and repeating: "Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!" Those mannerisms came back to haunt Cagney, who later wrote in his autobiography: "I did those gestures maybe six times in the picture. That was over thirty years ago - and the impressionists have been doing me doing him ever since."[
Look up his AFI Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech here on UA-cam. Toward the end of the speech he recollects on that character who stood on the corner hitching his pants, twitching his neck and snapping his fingers, as well as some other kids he grew up with, reciting their first and last names after so many years, and thanked them all for that "wee bit of the gutter in me, without which, I most likely wouldn't be standing here tonight".
Yorkville is on the East Side in the 70s and 80s, isn't it?
@@basilmarasco1975 Yes, Yorkville is located in Manhattan. It is a section in the upper east side; 79th st to 96th st, from 3rd ave to the east river. 79th and 96th st are called east 79th st and east 96 st because it is part of those streets that are located east of central park (5th ave borders east side of central park)
@@nycinstyle And it was once a mostly German neighborhood, so I read.
@@basilmarasco1975 It is actually a very nice area, very high rents, very expensive properties. Has been that way now for many years.
This movie had me in tears as a youth at 7yrs,the sacrifices you take to influence not to walk in his footsteps as a GANGSTER,I remember this scene like it was yesterday.
good friends were cagney and Pat O'Brien,......here father jerry is lamenting that because he couldnt run as fast as him...he was caught and put into the system that MADE HIM a criminal...in the end rocky went coward NOT for the kids.....but for his best and only friend father jerry.....he loved him...and he couldnt leave the earth...disappointing him....it was his way of telling his buddy that his life was a lie...and the little boy was still there....something he couldnt do face to face.....
Cagney is brilliant here...because he plays the entire movie as a gangster/killer...yet in 30 seconds gets a few of you to question his real motives....maybe Orson Wells was right...that.... Cagney was the greatest actor ever to appear in film!!
One of the best endings and best scenes in movie history. Cagney is among the greatest of all time but Pat O'Brien was as fine a supporting actor as there was during the 30s and 40s.
What a film ending gets me. everytime
The look on cagneys face at 0.25 is iconic, he looks like a proper gangster and his eyes could stare into your soul!
beautiful piece of work
Based solely on Cagney's three-second facial expression while considering whether to turn yellow, I'd say he deserved the Oscar.
That's right, Cagney did deserve an Oscar for his performance of Rocky Sullivan.
Do you think that Rocky decided last minute to show the dead end kids that they shouldn't look up to him? Or do you think that Rocky really did break down because it suddenly hit him that his inevitable death was in less than a minute?
Allen Richards, judging from that look of mischievous rebellion that crosses his face while walking to the chair, definitely he did it for the kids. Cagney even slyly made Rocky so tough, he couldn’t really even convincingly act yellow. In silhouette the only words he said were “I don’t want to die,” “No,” and “Please!” The rest was bizarre otherworldly sounds never heard from a man before or since. It’s an amazing scene.
@@williamfoley3544, they were bizarre otherworldly sounds. That's why I think that maybe he really cracked and broke down, because he couldn't convincingly act yellow. He really did suddenly get hit with fear because until that last minute, he didn't believe that he was really going to die any second. He spent most of his life until that last minute believing that he was invincible and bulletproof, and that he was too tough for anyone or anything to take him down. On the other hand though, maybe it was an act to teach the kids not to admire a criminal. I'm not 100% sure.
@@williamfoley3544
I think I also heard him say "Oh, please don't make me burn now," "Oh, please let go of me," and "Please, don't kill me!"
Cagney should've gotten the Oscar for this.
What a great movie! Cagney was brilliant, and was there ever anyone in cinematic history who could play a priest better than Pat O'Brien? I don't think so. His face when Rocky starts sobbing is movie magic. The tear coming down his cheek is one of cinema's greatest moments.
Maybe Tracy?
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938) is the definition of a Hollywood Classic; one of Cagney & O'Brien's best.
he did it for the kids
bullshit. he saw that chair and the fear of death set in.
Sure he did...or they wouldn't have used the scene where the priest asked him to do it for the kids. Boss Nass must have missed most of a true classic to come to that brain dead coclusion.
for Jerry's Kids
+thebaddog410 This scene always got to me. When Father O'Brien spoke to him about showing the kind of bravado only he and him and God knew. He wanted to save the lives and the souls of those boys so he asked Rocky to die yellow. This scene is extremely powerful and shows the masterpiece this film truly is.
@@psouth100 your an IDIOT!!!
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An absolute classic James Cagney totally brilliant
Well of course Rocky did it as his one last gesture for his buddy Jerry...and for the humanity he NEVER abandoned
He did it for the kids that's my take anyway
Great 🎥. Great cast. The scene where Rocky was led to the electric chair was priceless. The awards won was well worth it.
What a totally moving clip. I steamed up my glasses with tears. Oh how I love these old movies. I have to thank my mother in law for that. She introduced me to Edward G many years before you tube. I am so sorry she missed this fine medium.
I really liked Edward G. Robinson's 1931 film "Smart money". Cagney had more of a secondary role in that film, but I think that part of that is because that film was made before "Public enemy" which was basically the first film where Cagney really pulled a major role and came out onto his own.
Both Robinson and Cagney were great actors. Robinson in "Smart money" played a pretty cool and confident, yet streetsmart guy. He wasn't as temperamental as most of Cagney's characters but was just as tough.
One of the greatest actors to ever of delivered a performance, I must have watched this movie 20 times over the years and this closing scene always brings a lump to my throat and tear to my eye. The look of defiance in his eyes as he walks to the chair tells everything, but he knows his was a wasted life and the kids will follow him in to the same end if he doesn't do this one last thing , but as JC said , you have to decide yourself . Watch the Parkinson BBC interview of JC and POB when they were old men, , its so good.
No other actor ever like this guy
I watched this movie with my big brother as a child and I've continued to watch it from time to time and I still love it. Bravo 👏
Cagney deserved the best actor Oscar that year (1938). Tracy only won because he portrayed a priest, and the Academy preferred to give the Oscar to a priest instead of a gangster
What can you say. Cagney! What an actor.
A real true home, he didn't let Jerry down knowing the Bowery boys wouldn't respect that he went out yellow, so he care for the boys also awesome flick classic!
meant to say a real true homie! Actually I did right it but auto correct change it!
I have to admit first time I saw this it tore me up 😥
Great movie, fantastic acting. I fell in love with Ann Sheridan in this movie
A great movie!
The prior scene in the cell was shot in 1 take!
That's what they said on AMC in comments after airing this film.
@@basilmarasco1975 If you look at the time stamp, it was approximately 7 minutes long.
For I thought Rocky is not afraid to face his doom, now he’s begging for mercy the way he acted 0:34
Pat O'Brien's line is the best.
"... couldn't run as fast as I could."
Cagney probably the greatest film star.
Top of the world, Ma!
William Foley, "White Heat". Another great performance from Cagney.
Rocky still died a gangster and a murderer. The point is that Jerry had so much humanity that he was able to reach him.
Did you see the look in his eyes ? . Walking into the chamber ! He had absolutely no fear of death. ! .He did it for father Jerry His life long friend... And the kids ! So they don't grow up like he did !
Fear of death and fear of being roasted alive on the electric chair are two significantly different things, I would say...
Now that's an ending. It's funny how people speculate what Rocky's real motive was. IT'S A MOVIE! It's meant to be ambiguous. That's what makes it art. I can't think of another example in film or literature what the act of redemption is left with a question mark. That's what makes it so brilliant.
That's a great final line. The only reason Fr. Jerry didn't fry in that chair is because he was fast. Other than that, he was just like Rocky and he's only a priest and not a crook due to a trivial matter.
It helps you see the best in Rocky and the humility of Fr. Jerry.
I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. We don't know for sure that Father Jerry became a priest simply because, unlike his friend, Rocky, he managed to escape being caught by the police after he and Rocky (both young boys at the time) tried to steal pens from a railroad freight car.
If Jerry was caught and sent to reform school with Rocky, who's to say that he wouldn't have met a priest and/or a nun who would read the Bible to him and implant the word of God within him? Suppose Jerry decided to except God, but Rocky rejected Him? The results would be the same, Rocky would become a criminal and Jerry would become a priest.
I once had a book about how the movies portray historical events, or how they deal with real-life situations, like crime, for example. (I don't remember the title of the book.) In the chapter on crime films, there was a subchapter about "Angels With Dirty Faces." In it, the author rejected the suggestion that if Rocky had escaped from the cops with Jerry, he could have been saved from a life of crime as well. The author said he didn't "buy it," because basically, Rocky "had the gallows mark on him" from the day he was born. In other words, Rocky was such a rotten kid, that it really didn't matter whether or not he was arrested for that petty offense, he would've became a big-shot gangster and racketeer anyhow.
What a movie...
Mike U R so right!!
All time great they don't make them like this anymore shame I guess times change people want different things in a movie...rocky went out like he came in fighting but at the end for the right reasons just a great film here to you rocky...
As I was about to go outside on Sunday afternoons after church to play my father would say "hey there's a good movie on today" that was my clue to stay and watch it with him. a drama or Western....good times. I'm so grateful for him 🙌
James Cagney is one of my favorite actors and no matter what role he may play he will always give you a command performance. The same goes for Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, and Ann Sheridan, and The dead end kids. That movie was not only good. It was a tearjerker at the end.
2021 and he will live on forever. James cagney.
Maybe the kids walking up the stairs is symbolic of their being put on the right path. To get to heaven.
No doubt. Compare the "streaming" stair light to earlier in film.
All that to save the kids
0:20 so chilling seeing the executioner and all those wires that connect to the chair for that brief second
The irony is unbelievable. James Cagney, without doubt perhaps the finest gangster in film history, was also it's most reluctant. He was a patriot who loved his country; a song n' dance man to the max. He thought Clark Cable was the ultimate American symbol of Masculinity and Duke Wayne its cowboy heart.
In 1938 for "Angels with Dirty Faces" and 1949 for "White Heat", Cagney was essentially penalized because Hollywood could NOT allow an Oscar to be given to a truly hardcore criminal. Spencer Tracy, a close friend, and Edmund O'Brien both benefited from this bias.
Virginia Mayo said it best about the Oscar going to O'Brien for "DOA": Who was better really? There's no way that anyone beat Jimmy's performance as Cody Jarrett...NO WAY. No one deserved it more.
Cagney dies in a lot of his movies, this probably being the most emotional ending of all his movies. I also liked the ending of White Heat, the movie where he had a mother complex. As he's getting ready to go up in flames, he yells out, "made it ma, top of the world"!
Here is my honest version. The character Rocky had been close to death most of his life by living a life of gun crime, so being killed wasn’t a deterrent for him, he simply accepted it as a possibility that may come his way through being a Gangster. Going to the chair at the end would have been sad for him, and he would have also been fearful about the unknown, was he about to meet his maker? Or was he about to simply never see the light of day again? Either way, I think his stubborn pride and ego was enough to get him through the execution in a dignified and tough guy way. However, deep down he did have a conscience and he probably thought that playing the coward was the right thing to do before he may meet his maker. When faced with death, he really had nothing to lose, only his silly pride which let’s face it, who cares what imperfect people think of you anyway, they’re simply not worth your worry, only your creator deserves that.
Cagney was just amazing in this movie
What a GREAT MOVIE
0:32 I think at the end of his life and knowing he will die, he was afraid as we see and hear him pleading for his life. I actually think that is how Cagney envisioned the character, as well. Nothing glamorous or desirable for children to idolize in the life of a felon with a long criminal past. That is the true way this film ends, IMO.
I heard that Cagney suggested that he goes to the chair pleading for his life; I don't think it was written that way in the script.
One of the best scenes in movie 🎬 history it takes a real man to die like he did remorseful cagney cared and loved those boys at the end he didn't die like a coward he died with humbleness that's what God wanted to hear him say when cagney cried out don't let me burn in hell which was so powerful his evilness left him so God can take his soul classic scene R I P mr.cagney we all love and miss you dearly.
Actually, what he said was "Oh, please don't make me burn NOW!"
Cagney deserved his Oscar nomination for this ,Ragtime was his last film
Pat O'Brien was in "Ragtime" too.
Powerful stuff.
James Cagney was for sure a great actor, I miss the good ol days.
Just seen this for the first time. Wow....
Warner's Irish malarkey at it's absolute best!
Sure don't make classics like this anymore but 84 years later ,Still a poignant scene to watch ,James Cagney to Pat O'Brien & The rest of the classic cast was & were brilliant in this 1938 classic,Still a powerful scene in today's world to when it originally came out in 1938 ,Still shed tears watching this scene 🥺😥It's Hollywood Gold 🪙 at its most brilliant 🪙
Absolute tear jerker one ov the best actors you will ever see dont make em like James cagney anymore
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Any GH fans here? I sense that Maurice Benard who plays gangster Sonny Corinthos borrowed a great deal from James Cagney, that little shoulder shrug was SO Sonny.
What's GH?
@@michaelpalmieri7335 General Hospital