Angels with dirty faces
This slick, action-packed, hard-hitting film follows the story of two childhood friends, ‘Rocky’ Sullivan and Jerry Connolly, who grow up in the toughest slums of New York – Hell’s Kitchen. The friends take different paths in life, Rocky becoming a career criminal and Jerry a Catholic priest. Rocky’s swaggering pugnacious character is idolised by local juvenile delinquents who Jerry is working hard to keep on the straight and narrow. When Rocky is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair, Jerry asks him for one last favour.