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Dead End (1937)

Dead End poster
Directed by
William Wyler
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 152 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a poor New York neighborhood, a woman worries about her young son falling in with a local gang as a notorious gangster returns from prison to visit his family.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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