Cinema 100 - DOUBLE FEATURE: "Boys Town" & "Angels w/ Dirty Faces"

Ep 72Boys Town Directed By: Norman Taurog Release Date: September 9th, 1938Angels with Dirty FacesDirected By: Michael CurtizRelease Date: November 26th, 1938In 1938, Hollywood had a strange obsession with one particular kind of kid: the kid who was already headed for trouble.But these two movies couldn’t disagree more about what happens next.Boys Town takes a real-life priest, a group of delinquent boys, and an unconventional experiment—and turns it into a story about whether society can actually save the kids it’s ready to throw away.Then Angels with Dirty Faces heads in the opposite direction, dropping us into the brutal world of street gangs, where James Cagney’s Rocky Sullivan becomes exactly the kind of man those kids might grow up to be.One is hopeful. One is cynical. And both are asking the same uncomfortable question: when a kid goes bad, who’s really responsible?