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Name: Dead End (1937)
Released: 1937-8-27
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor

Dead End (1937)

NR
1h 32m
1937

83%

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Mobster "Baby Face" Martin (Humphrey Bogart) returns home to visit to the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother (Marjorie Main), who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey (Claire Trevor), now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave (Joel McCrea), a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Director:

William Wyler

Producer:

Samuel Goldwyn

Writer:

Lillian Hellman

Cast:

Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Charles Peck, Minor Watson, James Burke

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

Reviews

The Devil Finds Work

James Baldwin

The script is unable to face the fact that it is merely another version of that brutal fantasy known as the American success story: this helpless dishonesty is revealed by the script's resolution.

January 17, 2024

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Esquire Magazine

Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)

The cast is perfect; Allen Jenkins surprisingly strong as Humphrey Bogart's shadow.

Highly recommended, but not for children.

October 7, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

Couldn't be more outdated.

William Wyler's screen version of this juvenile delinquency drama features the Dead End Kids and boasts excellent performances from Bogart as a criminal before he became star and Joel McCrea as the decent guy.

June 21, 2017

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