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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.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.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.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 4 nominations total
Leo Gorcey
- Spit
- (as Leo B. Gorcey)
- Director
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- TriviaWilliam Wyler gave Claire Trevor an old purse and broken high heel shoes. He had her minimize her make-up and ordered her not to comb her hair when she got up in the morning. He wanted her to look like the downtrodden character she was playing.
- GoofsWhile getting a kid's 3 cents back, the shadow of film equipment appears on the railing.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: Every street in New York ends in a river. For many years the dirty banks of the East River were lined with the tenements of the poor. Then the rich, discovering that the river traffic was picturesque, moved their houses eastward. And now the terraces of these great apartment houses look down into the windows of the tenement poor.
- SoundtracksBoo-Hoo
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb
Lyrics by Edward Heyman
Played at the upstairs party and sung by Huntz Hall in the street
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Considering all the talent involved, it was hardly surprising to find this a first rate movie. Didn't you want to slap Bogart around ... well, that is actually what compelled me to make this entry. Among the handful of superlative cameo (say 2 to 8 minutes in length)performances I have seen in my 40 plus years of movie-going, Dead End features one of them.
Marjorie Main, almost as unlikely a film character (think Ma Kettle!) as one could imagine, turned in what I consider a masterpiece. Read that she repeated her stage role, and wow, that slap, that dialog and that role. Bravo!
Marjorie Main, almost as unlikely a film character (think Ma Kettle!) as one could imagine, turned in what I consider a masterpiece. Read that she repeated her stage role, and wow, that slap, that dialog and that role. Bravo!
- felixoscar
- Dec 3, 2004
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- Also known as
- Dead End: Cradle of Crime
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- Budget
- $300,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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