# Gli angeli con la faccia sporca (1938)

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**Original title**: *Angels with Dirty Faces*
**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Michael Curtiz
**Written by**: Ben Hecht, Warren Duff, Rowland Brown
**Starring**: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop

> *The saga of America’s dirty faced kids... and the breaks that life won’t give them!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You grow up alongside a childhood friend in a tough neighborhood and then your paths diverge. The film leaves them with contrasting lives.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, raw

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