DEAD END(1937) and the struggle for Depression era realism (RE UPLOAD)

#1930s #classicmovie #greatdepression #behindthescenes
In 1937, Samuel Goldwyn brought the smash Broadway hit, "Dead End," to the screen. However, his version of depression-era New York City was far removed from the initial vision and realism that director William Wyler had hoped to achieve.
In a battle against censors and Goldwyn, William Wyler sought to present a less artificial portrayal of New York City to movie audiences. Unfortunately, due to the constraints of the studio system and the production code, showing American audiences the reality of urban life and poverty during the Great Depression was deemed too controversial.
Instead, what audiences got in "Dead End" was a spectacular Hollywood set and a fairly faithful, albeit censored, adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's classic play about slum life, depression-era despair, and gentrification.
Starring Joel McRea, Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, and the original Dead End Kids, with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman, the movie is a gripping drama and a poignant examination of how one's environment can shape their identity. It remains one of the best classic films of the 1930s.
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[@CinemaCities1978]

I had to do a re edit and re upload of my "Dead End" (1937) video due to a copyright claim. If you haven't seen DEAD END you can watch it for free here ➡ archive.org/details/dead-end-1937 or free with ads here (but better quality print) ➡ kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJbNeJZ8gLWtY7c If you love classic films and want more content subscribe to the free cinema cities newsletter 📰screenspectator.substack.com?sd=pf

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

It's also currently running officially for "free with ads" on KZbin's in-house movie channel. It's a good quality print on YT.

[@CinemaCities1978]

@@OuterGalaxyLounge thanks! I updated the pinned comment with a link to that one!

[@lindamattioli7943]

I look forward to every video

[@jamesallard7223]

Sorry to see the reason why it had to be redone, but not unlike the actual source material, it didn't get harmed in the process. I recall watching it and the differences IIRC are subtle, but your point remained quite intact. Carry on, carry on, illegitimi non carborundum.

[@captainape6807]

An interesting bit of trivia, sorry if you already know this, Dead End Kid/Bowery Boy Leo Gorsey's image would have appeared on the iconic cover of The Beatles Sgt Pepper album but he was the only person represented on that layout that demanded payment. As a result, he was erased. not a decision that seems to have affected him in anyway, just an interesting ancedote.

[@sherirobinson6867]

This is one of my favorite movies. I even have it on DVD. Anything with the dead end kids, Bowery boys, Eastside kids, or Humphrey Bogart is right up my alley to entertainment.

[@CinemaCities1978]

I really enjoy the Dead End kids. They brought an entirely new kind adolescent energy to Hollywood when they arrived.

[@robs9237]

Sometimes I forget how good your channel is and then videos like this happen. You're a cinephile and historian 👏👏👏. Studios should hire u to produce documentataries. As a born and bred new yorker this topic hit me. Slums, immigrant families, crime, gentrification...that was my childhood. I'm def watching this tonight

[@CinemaCities1978]

It's amazing how relevant this story remains across the generations. The more things change, the more they stay the same. . .

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

@CinemaCities1978 Not just generations, but across geography. There's been a thing in the UK fir a while now called "Gentrification", whereby a run down area is "improved" by driving out the poor and renovating the area for wealthier people to inhabit. The poor aren't helped, just relocated.

[@BrianFlaherty1970]

EXCELLENT - i'm going to screen a double feature in my backyard w my new projector. DEAD END + THE NAKED CITY - you're work is soooo good. I wish you worked at TCM, they could use you!

[@CinemaCities1978]

I wish I worked at TCM too! That would've been my dream job! Or, doing research for a film archive.

[@BrianFlaherty1970]

@@CinemaCities1978 same. You’re doing really good work now

[@dbarker7794]

Thanks for covering this movie. Had no idea about the history. 10:39 10:39 Loved the story about the Dead End Kids and their loyalties. The Bowery Boys were like heroes to us kids growing up in the late 50s/60s.

[@CinemaCities1978]

you're welcome! While the kids were known to crack jokes and play tricks on their costars and each other, they took their work seriously.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Us kids who grew up in the 70s felt the same way. Every sunday, here in New York, one of the local stations ran what it called, 'East Side Comedy', AKA: all the old Bowery Boys featurettes. We ate this stuff up.

[@jtcbrt]

Another excellent job by you. You really do your homework and it shows.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Thank you for watching! Having to re edit a video can be a pain but, I think this was an Improvement over the original.

[@jtcbrt]

@@CinemaCities1978 I've always had an affinity for this film. I grew up in Manhattan's East 80's right by the East River. To this day, the entire neighborhood is slowly being consumed by luxury high-rises. Ironically. the story of "Dead End" has no end.

[@DanielOrme]

Your description of how Wyler tried and failed to get the realism he wanted sent me back to James Baldwin's book "The Devil Finds Work" (a slim, absorbing combination of essay, film criticism, and autobiography). At one point he talks about seeing Dead End when he was young, remembering it "left me cold ... my streets were funkier and more dangerous than that." He did respond to the Baby Face Martin character: "Much closer to the truth are the gangster, his broken mother, and his broken girl - yes: I had seen that."

[@CinemaCities1978]

I just ordered a copy of the book. You had me at combo of essay, film criticism and Baldwin. . . Wyler told Goldwyn it was phony and did the best he could under the constraints. But, just imagine if he had been able to shoot on location. It would've been groundbreaking.

[@DanielOrme]

@@CinemaCities1978 You made my day! 😀Enjoy!

[@carjam49]

I don't know why, but I have loved this movie for decades. I guess because it addressed poverty, inequality, and gentrification long before I could put a name to those things.

[@CinemaCities1978]

I felt the same way. It's also pretty wild to see how relevant the issues in the film are today.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Caught this movie on TV for the first time at about the age of 9 or 10. Caught it by pure happenstance. Was interested that they showed the Bowery Boys when they were younger and not so harmless and cute. Was, at first, put off that the film took place in one location the entire time. Didn't fully understand it but I was transfixed! Watched it right to the end, made a big impression on me. Asked my dad all kinds of questions later about it. Interesting bit about the neighborhood the film was about. My father moved to 405 E. 54th st. in the mid-1950s. The view from his kitchen looked east, right out over the former slums the movie depicts. But all those old tenements had been leveled by that time and replaced by tennis courts and gardens. A gorgeous view, you could see all the way out to Queens. Of course all that was temporary, until they could put up luxury high rise apartments. This movie addressed the issues of gentrification before that term had even been coined.

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

A very special movie to me, being one of the first great classics I saw on TV back in the '70s when I was becoming a young film lover. This film was incredibly powerful to me back then. I was over the moon about it, just so gorgeous looking and with Humphrey Bogart, too. How can it miss? Take a look at King Vidor's " Street Scene" (1931) and notice the strong similarities between these two films; that one was also produced by Goldwyn. Both films open and close with downward and upward pans of the skyline into and out of the slums. Dead End stole this idea from the earlier film. The earlier film was less stylized, though.

[@CinemaCities1978]

I like Street Scene it's a nice blend of the theatrical d an early attempt at onscreen realism. I actually made a short video on Street Scene after my first watch a couple of years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/e36zpampo9icoM0

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

@@CinemaCities1978 I little doubted you'd seen that, too, but haven't watched all your videos yet. I saw Street Scene many years after seeing Dead End, and at the time I felt I'd seen the upward and downward shots into the city in some other film, and I eventually figured it out.

[@walterfechter8080]

"Dead End" has remained with me since I was a kid. I felt terrible for Tommy. He's like so many Depression era kids -- without hope of a brighter future. The story, the director and the cast were stellar. Thanks, Cinema Cities, for reviewing my favorite film with Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop and the rest of "the dead-end kids."

[@maartenlemmens8628]

Norman Bel Geddes was also an important industrial designer , and yes father of actress Barbara B.G.

[@Daisnap]

Wonderful! Bogart’s chilling scene with his worn down bitter and unspeakably sad mother played by the great Marjorie Main always gets me. His scene with Claire Trevor is powerful, too. Another wonderful film about city life came earlier starting as a Broadway hit as well: Street Scene featuring a fine ensemble cast headed by Beulah Bondi and David Landau. Beulah is an amusingly petty gossip while David just breaks your heart. Thanks for posting this! I learned a lot about behind the scenes of a big favorite of mine! Wyler - Wow!

[@CinemaCities1978]

Yes! Street Scene is great. It really succeeds in getting at that element of realism. It's also pretty shocking in both its language and some of its plot lines. Gotta love Pre-code!

[@Daisnap]

@@CinemaCities1978 Yes! Regarding the language, now that I think of it, I have a vague recollection of someone making a racial slur? Or antisemitic? What else is shocking, the adultery? Yes, love the realism, the casual hanging out on the front stoop while life walks by or enters your world in some way. Now I want to watch it again! Yes, Pre-code is the best IMO. Thanks for writing.

[@CinemaCities1978]

@@Daisnap I actually made a short video right after my first watch of Street Scene. Here's the link if you want to check it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e36zpampo9icoM0

[@melanie62954]

This is one of the few William Wyler films I haven't seen yet. Thanks for convincing me to track it down!

[@CinemaCities1978]

You're welcome. Although he wasn't 100% successful, Wyler really fought to get some element of truth on the screen.

[@azohundred1353]

I just learned a bunch about the making of this film I didn't know. Incredible video, Cinema Cities. I will say that Dead End, expressionism and sets aside, really captures a melancholic and depressingly relatable side of poor life. For me, it's probably the earliest film to do so that wasn't a flat out Gangster film like the original trio(Little Ceasar, The Public Enemy, Scarface), as much of this movie focuses on normal people trying to make it through their day, however bleak life may seem to them all. Wyler would definitely take this same feeling and apply it to Detective Story when he made that film. Hey, maybe Wyler did have a auteur style after all, lol. Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sydney, two of the most underrated of their era, always enjoy their performances. Joel McCrea recently got praise from George Clooney when he went on TCM. Always happy to see these two discussed. And Sylvia Syndey, what a long, great career she had. Such a fantastic actress.

[@melissavidic2895]

I’ve heard about this film and of course now I need to see it! I’m a native New Yorker and I love the grit of this town especially back then. Thank you for posting, your research is appreciated,😎.

[@CinemaCities1978]

It's a good one and I must also recommend THE NAKED CITY. It's the type of film dead end wanted to be. Director Jules Dassin got to take his cameras on the streets in NYC and put the living city on screen.

[@melissavidic2895]

@@CinemaCities1978 Yes I’ve had that one on my list as well! ❤️

[@melissavidic2895]

I believe I learned of the show called Decoy from your channel, I saw a few episodes and loved Beverly Garfield as Officer Casey Jones. Thanks 👍😎.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Same here. Dead End may not have had the realism everyone wanted but they got so many details right. Like the body language and the way the dead end kids moved around the streetscape and made it their own, like they were one with the streets. The NAKED CITY TV show is also worth checking out. Really great location work there. I remember squealing with delight when one episode showed around the corner of the block I grew up on. 3rd ave btwn 82nd & 83rd.

[@Chiller11]

Poignant story of William Wyler who in WW2 enlisted as a filmmaker in the US Signal Corps. He made the famous doc Memphis Belle. As the US Army drove toward Germany he took a side trip to visit his birthplace in Alsace Lorraine. While his father’s previous haberdashery was intact and recognizable the Jewish community he had been a part of had all been deported to concentration camps. Love your content.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Have you seen the documentary Five Came Back? It covers Wyler's (and others) war time work and covers this very poignantly.

[@Chiller11]

@@CinemaCities1978 Yes I saw that doc. Really fascinating. I found it interesting that the initial US film efforts in Tunisia were pretty much a failure and the Americans had to partner with the British to create a decent film. I also thought it moving how seeing the war up close affected some of those directors. I’ve seen many of the films created by those directors including Memphis Belle. There are some remarkable efforts among them.

[@tombaker4586]

Excellent presentation and it is great to look back at a different point in time. Greetings Tom Belgium.

[@marstondavis]

I have recommended this film to numerous people. They had never heard of it. They all said it was a great experience. I have the DVD and watch it at least three times a year. Thanks for dissecting and explaining so much about one damn good film.

[@CinemaCities1978]

It always surprises me how little-known this film is. It has Bogie in it, and it's directed by William Wyler, yet it seems to slip through the cracks. However, I've come to realize that Wyler doesn't really get the appreciation he deserves these days.

[@DAVEJJR]

I’ve always loved this film. Both Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea were wonderful! An amazing testimony to late 1930’s America 🇺🇸

[@CinemaCities1978]

I feel like Joel McRea is kind of overlooked today. He was a very likable and versatile actor. I think he needs a renaissance .

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

have you seen joel mcrea and fay wray in 1932's "the most dangerous game?" i was never a big joel mcrea fan but he was excellent in this and "dead end."

[@DAVEJJR]

@@cjmacq-vg8um No I haven’t, will now. Joel McCrea was amazing in 1936’s “These Three” with Miriam Hopkins & Merle Oberon. He was also brilliant in 1941’s “Sullivans Travels “ with Veronica Lake….

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@DAVEJJR ... how could i forget mcrea in "sullivan's travels" with veronica lake? i guess i liked joel mcrea better than i thought. but in later years didn't he become some kind of singing cowboy or something? its those films of his i don't like. for sure check out "the most dangerous game." its a wonderful adventure film. it was made by the same people who brought us "king kong" but was made before that. and it has both fay wray and robert armstrong, from king kong, in it.

[@marymitchell8625]

A favorite I don't get to see much these days. I first saw this at eleven, before I understood that my own area would be gentrified. Usually if someone mentions Beetkejuuce, I'm reminded of Sylvia Sydney, who didn't make enough pictures. Love her in this, and it's probably the only "Dead End Kids" movie I will watch today. Very smart film. Who doesn't like Joel McRea?

[@charlynegezze8536]

Thank you so much for the background story and the link. Both were very enlightening.

[@CinemaCities1978]

you're welcome! thank you for watching.

[@judithlauron2856]

Well done🎥The Sam Goldwyn info is so spot on❗️

[@CinemaCities1978]

he was a real character 😂

[@wooden5c]

I watched this on the 1st upload some time ago. I am glad you re uploaded it as it was worth a 2nd watch.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Thanks for watching it again! I really appreciate it!

[@JanPospisilArt]

This was really interesting! Thanks for highlighting the film.

[@CinemaCities1978]

you're welcome! Thank you for watching!

[@darinsingleton3553]

Excellent as always. Deeply appreciated.

[@calebfromtherealworld]

Hey! I found your channel via the original video. Very cool to revisit it

[@CinemaCities1978]

Thank you so much for watching it again!! I think it's actually a better video now so I'm not as salty about having to re edit it.

[@zetectic7968]

This is a new one for me & the Tolland photography looks very good in your clips. I have always found it strange that in the land of the 1st Amendment censorship was such a big deal. God forbid that poverty is shown realistically. The juxtaposition of the luxury apartment block cheek by jowl with the slum is interesting. I wonder if this film influenced J G Ballard's novel High-Rise that was filmed in 2015: some stories are often retold because they remain relevant.

[@numbersix8919]

I didn't know any of this stuff! Great video, thank you. Brava!

[@CinemaCities1978]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@CoimbraGuy]

Oh my! One of my all-time favourites. Well done and thank you!

[@CinemaCities1978]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@flowermeerkat6827]

This movie is amazing. I love Claire Trevor's performance. I always love anthing Joel McCrea is in as well.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Joel McCrea is very underrated today and he's wonderful in everything comedies, westerns, dramas, romance. He needs a renaissance!

[@MoreMovies4u]

Another excellent and informative vid, CC. Thank goodness they didn't replace those kids with Hollywood stand-ins. Goldwyn was such a pain in zee ass. I love Gregg Toland's work, such a master. William Wyler too. I will have to check this movie out at some point. 👍🎬

[@CinemaCities1978]

I think you'll enjoy it. It's got the added bonus of Bogie's performance as Baby Face Martin whose mother is a site/sound to behold.

[@MoreMovies4u]

@@CinemaCities1978 I have been working through Bogart's films (at a snail's pace) so this one will certainly get a screening at some point. Thanks CC!

[@edramirez1240]

Another great vlog. I always enjoy this movie, and even though the set looks like a playhouse stage instead of an actual NYC neighborhood. I’ve been fantastic on how the set designers were able to cram so much into the space. The juxtaposition of the Art Deco apartment tower next to the rundown 18th century slum showed the continuous gentrification of the Eastside of Manhattan. Also, this the film that introduced me to Silvia Sydney. Who I came to describe as the “Most Unhappiest Actress in Hollywood “. In my opinion, she never smiled or laughed in her too infrequent portrayals. Always moody, anxious, and pensive in virtually all her films.

[@CinemaCities1978]

That set was a work of art. If you look at the behind the scenes photo you can just how intricate and detailed it was. I like your description of Sylvia Sidney. Even when does get some happiness it's always tinged with sadness and melancholy.

[@edramirez1240]

@@CinemaCities1978 It’s way better than CGI. Also, agree with your comment on Silvia Sydney.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Could you imagine if they'd done this with CGI! It would look awful!

[@edramirez1240]

@@CinemaCities1978 So True.

[@tchrisou812]

This was outstanding work.

[@CinemaCities1978]

thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@diego-search]

So embittering for the gangster played by Bogart who is deeply hurt and sorry when he asks his old girlfriend why she has been working the streets, "Why didn't you starve first?!....and she replies, "Why didn't you?!" His mother rebuking/rebuffing him, "You're no son of mine." All the same day.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Both encounters were so raw. Great performances from Marjorie Main and Claire Trevor.

[@diego-search]

The Marjorie Main character is so sad, (and well acted) living in life long poverty, alone, and miserable. What could have been her pride, purpose and support, is a known brutal criminal whose known misdeeds have robbed her of any peace....only to see her son, killed as had killed others.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Main originally played the role on Broadway and I'm glad Goldwyn decided to have her reprise it onscreen.

[@diego-search]

@@CinemaCities1978 Very telling in her miserable, lonely poverty, having nothing but her moral outrage/disgust, she is the only person who knows Baby Face, who didn't ask or want his money.

[@dearbrad1996]

I can see Sam's point. If the average cinema goer wants reality they can walk outside and it won't cost them money. Thanks Sidney 4 stars PS I just love the sound of your voice and I'm sure that if you wanted a part-time job you can replace the bots that are becoming more frequent on KZbin.

[@jamesallard7223]

It's just a Wallace Beery wrestling picture! ETA: Ok, that was silly, but I couldn't help it. The film itself is such a terrific example of Hollywood style filmmaking from that era as to make me want to look for Ward Bond. Oh, right, he was the doorman. Thanks, again, for introducing me to something wonderful.

[@ggtjr4]

I love this movie. I first saw it two years ago. And, I love this channel

[@CinemaCities1978]

Thank you!

[@ErikTheCueist]

just watched this movie for the first time the other day. Love these retrospectives :)

[@DansTravels5823]

Need to add this one to the list.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Definitely!

[@stevemcnary7963]

Bogart showing his skills which were only a few years from blowing up & making him the Top Stsr of the 40s.

[@stretch9952]

This is a fascinating, excellent presentation, never knew so much about the genesis of this film. I have watched it a few times and regretted its claustrophobic feeling, nobody, rich or poor ever gets off the end of that street. As such, it blunts the impact of the dichotomy of the economic circumstance, that site seems just too manufactured to connect to reality, though it could have roots in reality. Oh, If only the assemblage that made Naked City could have made this, what a difference.

[@CinemaCities1978]

I would have loved if William Wyler had succeeded in his vision for this. If only he could've brought his cast and crew to NYC. That film version would've been truly amazing.

[@nickimontie]

I can’t wait to watch this movie. I’m going to watch it right after I watch you video.

[@CinemaCities1978]

I hope you enjoyed it!

[@nickimontie]

@CinemaCities1978 OH great movie, but now I wish I saw the stage play! The weight of his 2 failures on Bogart's face was heartbreaking especially given his choice to go down the next path. Couple that with the woman who played his mother - you can just feel and hear the depths of her despair, with no energy left to be angry. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@CinemaCities1978]

I'm so glad you liked the movie! Majorie Main who played Bogart's mother actually originated the role on Broadway so at least we get a taste of what that performance would've been like on stage.

[@gaetanovindigni8824]

Lovely. Thank you.

[@CinemaCities1978]

you're welcome!

[@anthonyperdue3557]

😎The performances conveyed the despair , damnations and delusions of the dead end neighborhood. Solid performances from one and all but the film belongs to the gang IMO! Another one of those late night TV offerings that I refused to miss.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Oh yes, the boys really steal most of the show. Those kids knew their roles and really did a wonderful job moving from stage to screen.

[@FrankinDallas]

I bring up this film when I hear people say they don't like B&W movies. It always works to convince them that it's a great movie and worth watching. The scene with Bogie and his mother are classic. And shocking.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Yes, that scene is so raw and real it's almost painful to watch.

[@marksieving7925]

When I was a kid, the local TV station ran Bowery Boys shorts every morning, which made me late for school a lot. I remember them as comedies, not gritty social commenntary.

[@CinemaCities1978]

When they arrived in Hollywood from Broadway, Warner Brothers had their contract, and they appeared in a lot of quality gritty crime pictures with Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and John Garfield. After their contract was sold off, the quality and prestige of their films shifted into B programmers.

[@coolaunt516]

Excellent video!

[@CinemaCities1978]

Thank you very much!

[@ujean56]

Ah yes, the good'ol days when everybody was poor and everyone was happy, especially everybody that wasn't poor. This was an early example of Hollywood making money from poverty. A tradition that's still alive and well. Bumfrey Gocart had a nice hat.

[@suzimajor9532]

That was great.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@wentmad]

Really interested in what led up to noir (if you consider Maltese Falcon, Laura, Double Indemnity, and Murder My Sweet as 1st-4). Dead End’s Humphrey seemed really desperate and lost, before he settled into his anti-hero role. Maybe noir’s cinematography, crime, and surrealism made “realism” more bearable.

[@lindamattioli7943]

Watching it now big fan of Claire Trevor

[@CinemaCities1978]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@anitarichmond8930]

Oh boy,was this interesting, what a coincidence I had bought up a movie from the 1937 to a friend. But it was a fantasy film you might know it ‘Lost Horizon’ starring Ronald Colman ?

[@CinemaCities1978]

yes. I've seen that and I'm a big Ronald Coleman fan. I love his voice!

[@Larkinchance]

Not set in NYC is John Ford's "Grapes of Wrath"... The Joad family in a loaded down model A, navigating their way slowly through a hobo town. You see hungry children, desperate people and hear only the sputtering of the car's engine.. It was film doing justice to literature.

[@davek7706]

I don't know if you've heard of Greg Turkington but he does similar work for On Cinema, you might want to check him out! Your piece was excellent, 5 bags of popcorn!

[@patrickhicks9880]

I like the Sylvia Sidney part

[@CinemaCities1978]

Yes, she's very good.

[@Dpb-236]

I like your channel much. ❤

[@CinemaCities1978]

thank you!

[@Whippets]

Shame they had to walk on eggshells when adapting the play and making the film, still all and all it's a damn good film with some strong performances, especially Sylvia Sydney.

[@CinemaCities1978]

Sylvia Sidney is so good and her chemistry with Billy Halop, who plays her brother, is so natural.

[@soda989]

bravo

[@CinemaCities1978]

thank you!

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i find "dead end" as it is, a GREATLY realistic film. personally, i found the hays code to actually be beneficial to filmmakers. it forced them to be more creative and inventive. to use double entendres and creative dialogue and visuals to represent what couldn't be blatant on screen. i mean is the "f' word really that important to our freedom? both censorship and "free reign" creates problems. what's wrong with a little self restraint and social responibility? it seems these days filmmakers' only goal is to shock! "dead end" is one of my favorites. (i have about 500 favorite films,) this and "the petrified forrest" are two films that turned me onto bogart. bogart made 5 excellent gangster films at the beginning of his career. the two already mentioned, "angels with dirty faces" and "the roaring twenties," both starring cagney, and "high sierra" with a screenplay written by john huston. bogart and huston were to have a wonderful relationship in films through the years. thanks for the video. it was well researched, written and narrated. good job.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

one thing that fascinated me about "dead end" was its mentioning of plastic surgery. i mean this was 1937 and they had plastic surgery back then? bogart made another film 1947s "dark passage" where plastic surgery played a major part in the plot. this always surprised me considering when these films were made.

[@gregwalker1913]

I accidentally hit the thumbs down. This an excellent little documentary about film and class . Well done!

[@CinemaCities1978]

No worries! Thank you for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@karleyyork9001]

Damn You are Good!

[@Dpb-236]

I had wached.😂😊 I surprised a little and uncomfortable for realismin that day.for example. Bogard's mother seems in maksim Goriki in Ussr ....but time goes by now I'm okay this movie. A good movie.

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Murray Hill.