Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- casino
- based on novel or book
- gangster
- film noir
- black and white
- dead end kids
- juvenile delinquent
- catholic
- reform school
- catholic priest
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Cagney
Rocky Sullivan
Pat O'Brien
Jerry Connolly
Humphrey Bogart
James Frazier
Ann Sheridan
Laury Ferguson
- George Bancroft — Mac Keefer
- Billy Halop — Soapy
- Bobby Jordan — Swing
- Leo Gorcey — Bim
- Gabriel Dell — Pasty
- Huntz Hall — Crab
- Bernard Punsly — Hunky
- Joe Downing — Steve
- Edward Pawley — Edwards
- Adrian Morris — Blackie
- Frankie Burke — Rocky - as a Boy
- Directed
- Michael Curtiz
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 357 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
