Dead End
by William Wyler
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Actor: Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Wendy BarrieDirector: William Wyler
Brand: SIDNEY,SYLVIA
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Producer: Merritt Hulburd
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Lillian Hellman
Writer: Sidney Kingsley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Dead End
Movie Review: Lives Collide at Various Dead Ends
Summary: 4 Stars
When DEAD END was released in 1937, it received four Oscars including one for best picture. It didn't win but the power that was present in every scene is as noteworthy now as then. Residents of New York often overlook that they live on an island--no matter where they turn eventually they hit a dead end. Director William Wyler applied this dead end as both a symbol and metaphor for the various collisions of lives that intersect at the edges of the East River. There are the dirt poor who can never leave. The Bowery Boys (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Hallop) are a resident gang of teenage punks who live only to act as predators on helpless victims or to idolize older miscreants who have gone to reform school, lived a high life of crime, and have returned to their origins. Humphrey Bogart is one such but in his case, he desires anonymity. He is wanted by the police, has had plastic surgery to hide his features, but returns to reconnect to his mother (Marjorie Main) and a previous girlfriend (Claire Trevor). Both attempts end disastrously. Bogart's accomplice in crime Hunk (Alan Jenkins) warns him that in life, one must never look back, only forward. This adumbration becomes the film's subtext. Those who seek to return to the Way Things Were are foredoomed to defeat. Sylvia Sidney is Trina, a hard-working decent young woman who loves Dave (Joel McRea), who desires another (Wendy Barrie), herself a former lower class resident who seeks to marry into money. Trina's brother (Garbiel Dell) is wanted by the police on an assault charge, and she must decide whether flight with him is the answer. Bogart as the vicious gangster is the center of both plot and theme. It is he who attracts the others by forcing them to respond to his antiquated notion that one can indeed Go Home Again. He can't, of course, and neither can they. DEAD END is an early masterpiece that presents the grittiness of a hardscrabble existence that demands that everyone make the same choice as did Bogart. That he failed does not invalidate the efforts of others to succeed. DEAD END ends as a celebration of the realization that perhaps Bogart was not wrong to try in the first place.
Summary of Dead End
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 Awards?(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 DirectionDrama DVD Video
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