Movie
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · 86 min
A scrappy old-fashioned neighborhood drama that mixes streetwise kids, crooked officials and earnest romance into a brisk, tidy morality tale.
- Directed by
- Ray Enright
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly
- Tagline
- What a Woman This "Oomph" Girl Is...She Makes These "Angels" Wash and Behave!
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Earnest, dark and warm. Brisk and easy to follow.
- About
- Justice, corruption, crime, family
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ray Enright
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly
