Dead End

Lillian Hellman’s screenplay from Sidney Kingsley’s play, pouring on powerful scenes, as hunted gangster “Baby Face,” who’s had his face surgically altered and come home to his old neighborhood, finally finds his mother (Marjorie Main), not happy to see him, in William Wyler’s Dead End, 1937.

Most of the performance of Claire Trevor, as Francey, girlfriend from the old neighborhood, finally found by “Baby Face,” (Humphrey Bogart), the most-wanted gangster, who’s had his face changed and come home, William Wyler directing from Sidney Kingsley’s play, in the Samuel Goldwyn production Dead End, 1937.

With “Dead End” kids (Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan) and gangster Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart) nearby, aspiring architect Dave (Joel McCrea) visits with his more affluent otherwise-committed girlfriend Kay (Wendy Barrie), in Samuel Goldwyn’s urban drama Dead End, 1937.

Tommy (Billy Halop) leads future “Bowery Boys” (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) recruiting Milton (Bernard Punsly), until his sister Drina (Sylvia Sidney) intervenes, gangster Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart) and her under-employed architect pal Dave (Joel McCrea) observing, early in Dead End, 1937.

Opening from producer Samuel Goldwyn, director William Wyler and Lillian Hellman’s screenplay from Sidney Kingsley’s play, the socially conscious Dead End, 1937, and the first screen appearance by Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan and Gabriel Dell, who would become “Dead End Kids” and “Bowery Boys.”

The gang (Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell) showing off for Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart), would-be architect Dave (Joel McCrea) panics as well-to-do Kay (Wendy Barrie) tries to visit, with director William Wyler’s famous cockroach shot, in Dead End, 1937.

A killer (Humphrey Bogart) returns to the mean streets that made him in William Wyler's Dead End (1937) co-starring Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea.