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The sixth screen teaming of off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, Angels With Dirty Faces endures as one of Warner Bros.' most popular crime dramas. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood-chum-turned-priest who vows to end Rocky's influence. Joining them are other ace Warner talents--Humphrey Bogart as a scheming attorney, Ann Sheridan as Rocky's hard-edged girlfriend and the Dead End Kids as worshipful street urchins--all ably directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). The New York Times proclaimed Angels With Dirty Faces Cagney at his best. the 1938 New York Film Critics Best Actor Award later came Cagney's way, as well as one of the film's three Oscar nominations. Watch this film's chillingly classic death-row finale and you'll know why.