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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616886538
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 08, 2005
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 14662
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 27, 1937
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Humphrey Bogart is 'outstanding' (Variety) as a vicious gangster on the run in this 'masterful gripping drama' (Motion Picture Daily) directed by William Wyler (Ben-Hur) and written by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes). Nominated* for four Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Picture, Dead End is powerful, entertaining and a true landmark in moviemaking. On the mean streets of New York's Lower East Side, Drina (Sylvia Sidney) hopes to save herbrother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin (Bogart) has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave (Joel McCrea) for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him? *1937: Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Claire Trevor), Cinematography, Art Direction
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Rating:  - early bogie
warner brother's had a stable-full of actors that graduated from the school of hard knocks w/. edward g. robinson,james cagney and humphrey bogart.While sharing the billing w/. Sylvia Sidney and Joel MacCrea,Bogart smolders w/. menace as his 'coming home party' fails to live up to his expectations.Cozying up to street urchins the Dead End Kids,Bogie hatches a plot to make his visit worthwhile. At the end is the inevitable showdown between the forces of hope (Joel MacCrea),good (the cops)and evil(Bogie).
Rating:  - ok but not that great
It was an ok movie. Bogie did well. The film was typical of the times. Definitely one of his minor pictures.
Rating:  - Stagy melodrama still entertains
Attracted by the picturesque river view, the rich rub elbows with the poor on the dead end street of the title when a ritzy apartment building is constructed there. In the shadow of plenty, several characters try to scratch out futures for themselves, most notably an out of work architect (Joel McCrea) who is having an affair with a rich man's mistress (Wendy Barrie), a shopgirl (Sylvia Sidney) trying to get her younger brother (Billy Halop) a better life away from street gangs, and a fugitive gangster (Humphrey Bogart) returning to his old neighborhood for a nostalgic visit with his mother (Marjorie Main) and old girl-friend (Claire Trevor). All of them will be changed by the end of the film. The movie retains the staginess of its Broadway origins. While consistently entertaining, the strictures placed on films at the time prevent it from being as gritty as it wants to be, causing it to come off as a bit too moralizing and melodramatic. This film is perhaps best known for introducing the Dead End Kids, who would go on to make a string of B-pictures.
Rating:  - "Dead End" is Dead On!
This is such a wonderful movie from 1937 which stars Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, and a quite youthful and convincing Humphrey Bogart. But in my eyes the real stars of the movie are the Dead End Kids. Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Jordan and Bernard Punsly were the original Dead End Kids in the Broadway play "Dead End". When the studio brought it to Hollywood to be filmed, they also brought the kids with them - much to the chagrin of studio head Louis B. Mayer! They wreaked quite a bit of havoc while on (and off) the set. Their contract was ended after the movie was made and they went to different studios where they went on to become the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.
The movie itself is rich in the detail and style of the time. It tells the story of life on the New York riverfront where the rich built luxurious homes amidst the run-down, filthy tenaments. Times are hard and jobs are even harder to get. Dave (McCrea) has gone to college and is a degreed architect but cannot find steady work. He has fallen for Kay (Wendy Barrie), a socialite/mistress who lives in the luxury apartments but who is afraid of poverty. Drina (Sidney) is his childhood friend who still carries a torch for him. She is out of work at the time because the workers are on strike against their company. Drina's younger brother, Tommy (Halop), is the leader of his small gang of boys who hang out at the dock near the apartments. She genuinely loves her brother and desparately desires ... Read More
Rating: - AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE
Far too many movie goers are forgetful. They forget what movies were like in the early days. They forget that the times themselves were different in the early days. To truly enjoy a film made all those many years ago, you have to transport yourself into the time when it was made, when it was released. You have to place yourself totally in a different world, one without cell phones and home movies and the internet. When that happens, the movies themselves take on a whole new meaning. To truly enjoy the film DEAD END you have to transport back to those days, the first rather than last half of the 20th century. And in so doing you find yourself appreciating the story as well as the craftsmanship behind it all the more.
Okay enough speech making.
DEAD END is a classic in film storytelling, offering Humphrey Bogart at his most sympathetic and frightening in one fell swoop. And he isn't even the single main character!
Taking place in New York's lower east side in the 20s/30s era, the film takes place almost entirely on the dock there. A group of toughs (who later went to fame as the Dead End Kids then the Bowery Boys) hang out on the dock, watching the high and mighty that live in the upper class apartment high above their tenement slum.
Drina (Sylvia Sydney) is a young single girl who longs for a better life, a way to escape with her young brother and take him away from all of the squalor. But her brother has already fallen in with these kids and things ... Read More
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