How about Bogart at the end........awesome!
"Get Back...........I'm goin out!"
That man was truly the greatest!
I liked that line. He kept fighting right to the end.
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Agreed he rocked.
Even though he is technically dubbed the bad guy in the film I don't think he's one dimensional at all. He was just the product of the dog eat dog world he lived in.
Baby Face Martin is a great character and probably my fave. Bogart gangster role.
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Great scene! When they begin to fill him fulla lead, it's quite chilling.
shareRight on target -- I couldn't agree more. You may want to check out my remarks re Bogart in Dead End in the "Comments" section of the film, entitled "An End That Comes in Dead First" dated 7/10/06 (or maybe it's 7/11/06). And now I think I'll cool off by taking a dive into the East River.
shareGangster, villain and murderer that he obviously was, one still has to admire both his performance in Dead End and the complex character he played. To my way of thinking Baby Face Martin was much more than the usual two dimensional character "bad guy" we see in most films. He was brave, had strong feelings for his old girlfriend and his mother, and despite a product of the New York slums and it's negative effects on his life, still wanted to settle down. He would have been very happy to do so with a mother that accepted him for what he was and could have married his girlfriend. In fact, these were the reasons he returned to the neighborhood even though there was a price on his head. After rejection by both mom and girl, he now seemed to realize that his days were numbered, and therefore, in line with your comment: "Get back....I'm goin' out!", he went out -- the only exit he could take.
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That shot of Baby Face when he sees his mother for the first time in 10 years, that one shot does so well turning this man from cold blooded killer gangster to a human being that the viewer can begin to somewhat sympathize with.
brilliant stuff!When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Lol, made me laugh. This film was pretty much the beginning of Bogart cool I suppose.
My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!
Doctor: "Twelve gunshot wounds. Five stomach, four chest, three head." (he also fell two stories and landed on cement, ouch!!)
Cop #1: "Who is this guy?"
Cop #2: "I don't know!"
Cop #1: "Hey, old lady Martin, that's the guy, Baby Face!"
Man: "Where are you goin'?"
His wife: "To go make some money, so I can pay the rent, so I can listen to you cough!"
Very funny dialog. It's almost a comedy.
This film definitely doesn't get enough respect.
My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!
Anybody wonder why Martin gave Francie some cash but never went in his pocket for his mother? Maybe he assumed his ma would never take "blood money," but he hadn't seen her for 10 years. I can't believe he'd been sending a money order every month!
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
He certainly has plenty of emotional keys to punch and punch them he does. I actually felt sorry for him in the end.
Sylvia Sidney is also really good. Too bad Joel McCrea plays an already-underwritten leading man character like a block of granite. Contrast him with Leslie Howard, who's a lot more dynamic opposite Bogart in The Petrified Forest. Yeesh.
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Different roles.
Howard was 'I don't care' suicidal.
McCrea didn't like Bogey, and wasn't afraid of him.
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