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Dead End is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by William Wyler. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, and Claire Trevor. It was the first film appearance of the acting group known as the Dead End Kids.
Dead End: Directed by William Wyler. With Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie. The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- William Wyler
- 1937-08-27
A harsh, pessimistic portrait of life in a big city ghetto, the film version of the acclaimed Broadway play Dead End (1937) remains one of the more relevant social dramas to emerge from Hollywood in the late thirties.
- William Wyler, Eddie Bernoudy
- Sylvia Sidney
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.
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- Samuel Goldwyn Productions, United Artists
- William Wyler
Overview. 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.
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