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Angels Wash Their Faces is a film of genre Drama directed by Ray Enright released in USA on 26 august 1939 with Ann Sheridan
Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
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Add to a movie listThe Angels Wash Their Faces is a 1939 Warner Bros. film starring Ronald Reagan and The Dead End Kids.
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Gabe Ryan (Frankie Thomas) is released from reform school and it taken to a new house by his sister Joy (Ann Sheridan) to start a new life where no one knows of his past. However, Gabe immediately joins a local gang, the Beale Street Termites, where he meets up with William Kroner (Bernard Nedell), a local gangster. William accuses him of starting a fire at one of his properties, and Alfred Martino (Eduardo Ciannelli), the actual arsonist, uses this opportunity to frame Gabe for any fire. He decides to torch one of his apartment complexes so that he can collect the insurance money. Unfortunately, one of the kids, Sleepy (Bernard Punsly) is killed in the fire.Actors
Ann Sheridan
(Joy Ryan)
Billy Halop
(William "Billy" Shafter)
Ronald Reagan
(Patrick "Pat" Remson)
Bernard Punsly
(Luke "Sleepy" Arkelian (as Bernard Punsley))
Leo Gorcey
(Leo Finnegan)
Dead End Kids
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