Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)






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


Books with substantial mentioning of Angels with Dirty Faces

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Lloyd Hughes
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies
London, 2005

Jonathan Munby
Public Enemies, Public Heroes, Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Chicago and London, 1999

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

James Robert Parish
Prison Pictures from Hollywood, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

James Naremore
Acting in the Cinema
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1988

James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Homer Dickens
The Films of James Cagney
Secaucus, NJ, 1972

Clifford McCarty
Bogey, The Films of Humphrey Bogart
New York, NY, 1965

Books with an entry on Angels with Dirty Faces

Larry Langman and Daniel Finn
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties
Westport, Connecticut - London, 1995

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969