Dead End

Dead End

Year: 1937

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: English

Director: William Wyler

DramaCrimeCrime drugs and gangstersViolent crime and drugsGritty crime and ruthless gangsters

Mobster “Baby Face” Martin goes back to the New York neighborhood where he grew up. He visits his mother, who rejects him because of his criminal life, and his former lover Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. He also encounters Dave, an old friend trying to become an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of boys who roam the East Side slums.

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