Dead End 1937 123movies

Watch: Dead End 1937 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Their antics, some funny, some vicious, alternate with subplots: unemployed architect Dave is torn between Drina, sweet but equally poor, and Kay, a rich man’s mistress; gangster Baby Face Martin returns to his old neighborhood and finds that nobody is glad to see him. Then violent crime, both juvenile and adult, impacts the neighborhood and its people..
Plot: 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. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city’s East Side slums.
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	7.2/10 Votes: 7,840
	91% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 88 Popularity: 7.036 | TMDB

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Great visual beauties, direction, acting. A so-and-so story.
The main credit of “Dead End” lies in the stunning visual beauties. The studio reproduction of a New York slum is really magnificent, worth of other major achievements of the same kind, like, say, the set of “Rear Window”. A true joy for the eyes. The work of the camera and William Wyler’s direction are outstanding, as well. And, of course, the job of the cast is great. Bogart, still in the role of the villain, McCrea and Sylvia Sidney are excellent, and save their rather straightforward characters and lines. In my opinion, the best one is Claire Trevor, in the small part of the lost girl. I normally dislike kids on the screen, but I must concede that here they give great performances, playing the gang of street-boys.

The story is conventional, with a noble message, but few and predictable twists. The script is often clumsy and preachy. Luckily enough, the director gives a quick pace to the narration and inserts a number of humoristic touches. There’s a main flaw in the plot: I think that, even in the States of the 1930s, a common citizen couldn’t freely shoot a gangster.

Anyway, I’ve found in the screen-play an interesting and modern theme, namely the psychological ambiguity of some characters, whom even the all-knowing viewer cannot fully understand. For instance, Claire Trevor is apparently the cliche disgraced girl, the innocent victim of poverty, lack of opportunities, social injustice. To end as a prostitute is her unavoidable doom… But, when her former boy-friend Bogie gives some money to help her, she makes the horribly vulgar request of “twenty more bucks”… with a grimace worth of a hardened prostitute (great stuff by Trevor!). So we see that, after all, perhaps that girl is not so innocent as she pretends to be… And what about Drina’s brother, the leader of the street-boys? The audience is perfectly aware that, in spite of his whining, weeping self-apologies (when he’s in dire straits), the boy is a REAL criminal. We see that he deliberately harms people, steals, brutally thrashes the rich kid, wants to slash his gang-mate. And he just mocks his affectionate sister and his friend McCrea when, in tears, he cries that he’s good, that he didn’t intend to harm, and all that. So, are we supposed to feel sympathy for this hideous boy? Interesting ambiguity, which creates a fine artistic effect… perhaps beyond the actual intentions of the writer Lillian Hellman.

All in all, we may forgive the defects of the movie. it is worth seeing “Dead End”, enjoying the beauty of the set and the work of director and actors.

Odd mix of social commentary and crime drama
DEAD END is an odd mix of social commentary and crime drama. For the first half of the running time, not much happens apart from the obnoxious Dead End Kids gang getting into various scrapes in their local area. The emphasis is on petty crime and degradation, a comparison between the sheltered lives of the rich and the desperate lives of the poor, and how the gulf between the two can lead to hatred and violence.

At the same time as all this is going on, a sub-plot involves a decent hard-working local man, played by western star Joel McCrea, and a hard-bitten gangster type, played by Humphrey Bogart. The two men hate each other on sight and eventually their sub-plot takes over the story, leading to some exciting crime thrills. The Dead End Kids too get drawn into the mix, and the whole thing builds to a thrilling climax. DEAD END is a little unsatisfying to begin with – you just want to see someone give those brats a thrashing – but it picks up a lot and ends on a real high. The emphasis is on realism throughout and the film is all the better for it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 900000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman, Sidney Kingsley
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,582.55 m (UK), (10 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm