Joel McCrea	 ... 	Dave Connell
	Humphrey Bogart	... 	Hugh 'Baby Face' Martin
	Wendy Barrie	... 	Kay Burton
	Claire Trevor	... 	Francey
	Allen Jenkins	... 	Hunk
	Marjorie Main	... 	Mrs. Martin
	Billy Halop	... 	Tommy Gordon
	Leo Gorcey	 ... 	Spit (as Leo B. Gorcey)
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028773/

User Rating:  7.6/10


In "Dead End" the nominal stars are Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea but it is the supporting players that steal the picture. Great performances are turned in by the Dead End Kids (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley), Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor and Marjorie Main. It also benefits greatly from the direction of William Wyler who keeps the story moving and makes the characters interesting.


It's a dead end street in New York that ends at the river. It's here that a wide assortment of characters from different walks of life come together in a pressure cooker setting. Rich, poor, kindhearted and hardhearted all come together. In Dead End, a young woman and her teenage brother struggle to survive. An architect works for a better life. A gangster comes home to visit his mother. A well kept woman chooses between love and wealth. The rich and the poor get glimpses of one another's lives at the waters edge.