Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) – Filming Locations
Crime / Drama · Directed by Michael Curtiz · Starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Where was Angels with Dirty Faces filmed?
- New York, United States, New York – Opening sequence establishing the slum neighborhood where Rocky and Jerry grow up as children. The Warner Bros. production filmed on location in New York's Lower East Side tenement districts to capture the gritty urban backdrop central to the film's narrative about childhood poverty and divergent life paths
- New York, United States, New York – Rocky's execution and final confrontation with Father Connolly at the prison. Filmed at the actual maximum-security prison in Ossining, New York, lending authentic weight to the climactic prison sequences and execution scenes
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – Interior scenes including the church, reform school, and various interior sequences. Studio-based production sequences were filmed on Warner Bros. soundstages in Burbank, with controlled interior sets complementing the New York location photography