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Former United States President Ronald Reagan stars with the Dead End Kids as a bare-knuckled urban district attorney who crusades in the defense of a kid who's been framed for arson and murder in The Angels Wash Their Faces.
When Gabe Ryan (Frankie Thomas) gets out of reform school, he moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, Joy (Ann Sheridan), trying to start his life over. He falls in with the Termites (The Dead End Kids), a gang of good-hearted boys. But when an arsonist accidentally kills one of the Termites, he frames Gabe for murder.
The arsonist, however, does not plan on deputy district attorney Pat Remson's (Reagan) relentless quest for the truth—or on the single-minded determination of the Termites to find the real killer.
Original Release
08/26/1939
US Release
08/26/1939
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Ann Sheridan | Joy Ryan |
Billy Halop | Billy Shafter / William "Billy" Shafter |
Bernard Punsly | Sleepy Arkelian / Luke "Sleepy" Arkelian (as Bernard Punsley) |
Leo Gorcey | Leo Finnegan |
Huntz Hall | Huntz |
Gabriel Dell | Luigi |
Bobby Jordan | Bernie / Bernie Smith |
Ronald Reagan | Pat Remson / Patrick "Pat" Remson |
Bonita Granville | Peggy Finnegan |
Frankie Thomas | Gabe Ryan |
Directors
Writers
Michael Fessier, Niven Busch, Robert Buckner, Jonathan Finn
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ann Sheridan | Joy Ryan |
Billy Halop | Billy Shafter / William "Billy" Shafter |
Bernard Punsly | Sleepy Arkelian / Luke "Sleepy" Arkelian (as Bernard Punsley) |
Leo Gorcey | Leo Finnegan |
Huntz Hall | Huntz |
Gabriel Dell | Luigi |
Bobby Jordan | Bernie / Bernie Smith |
Ronald Reagan | Pat Remson / Patrick "Pat" Remson |
Bonita Granville | Peggy Finnegan |
Frankie Thomas | Gabe Ryan |
Henry O'Neill | Remson Sr. / A.H. Remson |
Eduardo Ciannelli | Martino / Alfred Martino |
Berton Churchill | Mayor Dooley / Mayor James Dooley |
Bernard Nedell | Kroner / William Kroner |
Dick Rich | Shuffle |
Jackie Searl | Alfred Goonplatz |
Margaret Hamilton | Miss Hannaberry |
Marjorie Main | Mrs. Arkelian |
Minor Watson | Maloney |
Cy Kendall | Haines / H.J. Haines |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Hal B. Wallis | Executive Producer |
Jack L. Warner | Executive Producer |
Max Siegel | Producer |