April 1, 2009
Depression Era Melodrame is boring at best. Bogart, when he's actually on the screen, chews the scenery a bit.
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
This classic Hollywood drama (based on Sidney Kingsley's hit Broadway play) set in a Manhattan slum in the 1930s stars Humphrey Bogart as gangster Baby Face Martin, who returns to his old neighborhood...( read more
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June 29, 2009Very enjoyable film about the Lower East Side in the 30's.The rich are starting to move into the slums in high rise apartments,and a change is staring to take place.The film is about Bogie,a wanted Gangster, going back to his old neighborhood to see is Mom and a old girlfriend.Bo...( read more)
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October 23, 2008Nice bit of New York life from the 30's. Bogart gives a powerhouse performance, and the kids do good work.
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October 19, 2009An interesting film which attempts to grapple with the depths of despair and desperation that the poor must continuously battle juxtapozed with the conflicts and views that the very wealthy have towards them and their place in society. This film was also a bit of a landmark as it...( read more)
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August 14, 2007After watching twenty or so 30s films made by Warner Bros the difference in quality is jarring: here we see Bogart, on loan to Golwyn, doing his best in a poorly scripted, structured and designed film that feels more like a play. Extremely uncinematic, though it introduced the D...( read more)
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November 7, 2008The movie is kind of melodramatic but you have to remember when it was made. I personally found it of a lot of historical interest as this was the movie that introduced a lot of people who became famous later in all the Dead End/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys movies. Growing up on the Bowery Boys I was a bit surprised that this was not in any way a comedy.
It was also performed as our class play in high school way back in the early 1970s
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