Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)





A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life, but he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.


Books with substantial mentioning of Angels Wash Their Faces

Tony Thomas
The Films of Ronald Reagan
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Books with an entry on Angels Wash Their Faces

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