Angels Wash Their Faces

Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

What a Woman This "Oomph" Girl Is...She Makes These "Angels" Wash and Behave!

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.

Date of release
1939-08-26
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Ray Enright

Casting

Interesting facts

The Angels Wash Their Faces is a 1939 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan and the Dead End Kids.

Production

The Angels Wash Their Faces was filmed under the title The Battle of the City Hall. It was changed to reference the title of the unrelated film Angels with Dirty Faces, which also starred Ann Sheridan and the Dead End Kids along with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and had been released the previous year.

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