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DEAD END
Sunday, February 15
2:10
U.S., 1937
Directed by William Wyler
Screenplay by Lillian Hellman
Adapted from Sidney Kingsley’s 1935 play of the same name
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor
Approx. 93 min. 35mm.
Along the East River, ritzy apartments bump up against crummy tenements, as unemployed architect Joel McCrea yearns for stuck-up socialite Wendy Barrie while slum-raised Sylvia Sidney yearns for him and the Dead End Kids idolize hood Humphrey Bogart, returning to Mom and old flame Claire Trevor.
35mm print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“A muscle-bound Goldwyn production with an inflated reputation, interesting now chiefly in that, transposed virtually intact from the stage, it lets you see what the original Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's play must have been like; particularly fascinating is the composite set which makes a metaphor of the rich man's terraces overhanging the slums.”
– Time Out
“An arresting, inductive consideration of the slum problem, a prima facie case for a revision of the social system.”
– The New York Times
DEAD END
Post-film conversation with Peter McCrea, son of Joel McCrea
Sunday, February 15
2:10