They Made Me a Criminal
by Busby Berkeley
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Actor: Ann Sheridan, Claude Rains, John Garfield, May Robson, The Dead End KidsDirector: Busby Berkeley
Brand: Bayside ENT Dist
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Editor: Jack Killifer
Producer: Benjamin Glazer
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Bertram Millhauser
Writer: Beulah Marie Dix
Writer: Sig Herzig
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
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Movie Review: The boys are working on a farm. Here comes John Garfield.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the fourth Dead End Kids film. (Dead End [1937], Crime School [1938], Angels With Dirty Faces [1938]). A boxer (John Garfield) has a little party after his fight. In an apartment, Johnnie trys to swing a punch at a nosy reporter, but he is so drunk he misses and ends up passed out in a chair. Another man hits the reporter over the head with a whiskey bottle. The reporter McGee ends up dead. Later, they decide to make Johnnie take the fall. Johnnie is innocently drunk-sleep. The bad man and woman try to make their getaway, but with the police catching them, they go off the road and instantly die. They think it is Johnnie who is dead. But one detective is on the hunt. Johnnie runs away and he comes across a farm where the delinquent Dead End Kids (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly) have been sent to work. There he meets the boys who are trying to reform. Also a woman at the date farm, Peggy (Gloria Dickson), softens his heart too. Meanwhile a detective (Claude Rains) is close on the trail.
This is a good film for Billy Halop, who practically steals the film. Great acting from Halop. Good performances by May Robson who played the Grandma on the farm. Filmed at Palm Desert, California. Great ending. Get a hankercheif. On this DVD version, Alpha Video only offers an "index" which is a chapter selection. Very good print of film.
John Garfield & Leo Gorcey also appear together in Out Of The Fog (1941).
John Garfield & Billy Halop also appear in Dust be My Destiny (1939).
John Garfield & Claude Rains also appear in Four Daughters (1938), Four Wives (1939), Juarez [VHS] (1939), Daughters Courageous (1939), Saturday's Children (1940).
John Garfield & Ann Sheridan also appear in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).
The next films are:
Hell's Kitchen (1939)
The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
On Dress Parade (1939
Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsly, Gabriel Dell as "Dead End Kids" joined up with the "Little Tough Guys" (1938-43) for Universal Pictures.
Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordan went on to be "East Side Kids"(1940-45) for Monogram Pictures and were later joined by Huntz Hall and Gabriel Dell.
Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell then became The Bowery Boys (1946-58).
John Garfield also appeared with Leo Gorcey (and Bernard Gorcey) in "Out of the Fog" (1941).
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