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

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writer: John Wexley, Warren Duff, Rowland Brown

Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart
Transcript
00:06The slums of the big town, as packed with drama and danger as the squalid streets of
00:12some native quarter.
00:14In the heart of this melting pot of crime stands an oasis where one man struggles against
00:19the forces that turn his loved ones to lives of violence and shame.
00:27Into this atmosphere walks the most ruthless character you have ever seen on the screen,
00:32a killer returning to the slums that nurtured him and to the man who strangely enough had
00:37been his boyhood comrade.
00:39From the meeting of this strange pair evolves the most devastating blast of drama to hit
00:43the screen since public enemy, angels with dirty faces.
00:50Good morning, gentlemen.
00:52Nice day for murder.
00:53Where's Frazier?
00:54Where's that hundred grand?
00:55You think we're going to pay off, huh?
00:57Certainly.
00:58If I don't get that dough in three minutes, Frazier's going to be splashed all over the best hideout
01:01in town.
01:03I'm going to use your case as a crowbar to pry open and uncover this cesspool.
01:06I'm going to force the law, corrupt or not, to indict and prosecute and bring the light
01:09of day to this entire filthy mess.
01:15Asking questions again, huh?
01:18Listen.
01:20Some of these days you're going to stick your nose and you're going to get something in
01:22it.
01:23Well, I only thought it was...
01:24Shut up!
01:25Now, look.
01:26You don't know anything about this, see?
01:27No, no.
01:28I don't know nothing.
01:29But you do know what guys get who talk.
01:35Yes, Laurie, we both love him.
01:37I've loved him since we were kids six years old.
01:40Why are you trying to send him to prison for life?
01:42You can't do that to Rocky.
01:44I won't let you.
01:45You see, Laurie, there's all those other kids in the streets whom I don't want to see grow
01:51up like Rocky did.
01:53You see, Laurie, they have lives too.
01:54I can't throw them away.
02:01Sullivan picked me up at my home.
02:03He's got everything that was in my safe.
02:05Account books, receipts, names, addresses, bank books, everything.
02:08If he's prosecuted for this kidnapping, he'll talk.
02:15I'm taking care of this job myself.
02:18Get Blackie up here right away.
02:20Now listen, Mac.
02:21I don't care how you handle Sullivan, but it's got to look like an accident with that priest.
02:25Leave that to me.
02:44All right, give him the tear gas.
02:52Rocky?
02:53What are you doing up here?
02:53Go on, get out of here, beat it.
02:55What's the matter? Would you want to get your skull full of lead?
02:57I thought he was smart enough trying to stick your kiss in a place like this.
03:00I couldn't stand by and watch him shoot you down, Rock.
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