“THE GREATEST GANGSTER THRILLER THAT EVER EXPLODED FROM THE SCREEN!”
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, 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.
William Wyler
Samuel Goldwyn
Lillian Hellman
Gregg Toland
Alfred Newman
Sylvia Sidney
Drina Gordon
Joel McCrea
Dave
Humphrey Bogart
'Baby Face' Martin
Wendy Barrie
Kay
Claire Trevor
Francey
Allen Jenkins
Hunk
Marjorie Main
Mrs. Martin
Billy Halop
Tommy Gordon
Huntz Hall
Dippy
Bobby Jordan
Angel
Leo Gorcey
Spit
Gabriel Dell
T.B.
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OK, so this is definitely not the cheeriest of stories but Bogart and Joel McCrea are on good form throughout this gritty drama of hardship and depravity on the East Side of New York. "Baby Face Martin" - who, to be fair, maybe benefits a bit optimistically from the moniker - returns to his childhoo...
Dead End trailer 1937
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Samuel Goldwyn Productions
United Artists