Movie connections for
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

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Follows

Dead End (1937)
Crime School (1938)
Little Tough Guy (1938)
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)

Followed by

Newsboys' Home (1938)
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Code of the Streets (1939)
Hell's Kitchen (1939)
The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
On Dress Parade (1939)
Call a Messenger (1939)
You're Not So Tough (1940)
Give Us Wings (1940)
Hit the Road (1941)
Mob Town (1941)
Tough As They Come (1942)
Mug Town (1943)
Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)

Remade as

Ying hung jing juen (1986)
Asero (1995)
Ram Jaane (1995)

Edited from

The Public Enemy (1931)
 -  alternate angle of the gangsters bombing a storefront reused

Edited into

The Roaring Twenties (1939)
 -  footage from this of Cagney shooting pistol and gangsters bombing a store are used in a montage

References

The Covered Wagon (1923)

Referenced in

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
 -  A character carries a sign advertising this film.
Sleepers (1996)
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney (2000) (V)
 -  Referenced by name
Backflash (2001) (V)
Exhumed (2003) (V)
 -  dialogue quoted
"The Simpsons: I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (#19.4)" (2007)
 -  Marge watches the film A KISS BEFORE FRYING which features the very Cagneyesque inmate Johnny Stabbo being electrocuted.
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' (2007) (V)
 -  mentioned once

Featured in

James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981) (TV)
James Cagney: Top of the World (1992) (TV)
Hollywood vs. Religion (1994) (V)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995) (TV)
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997) (TV)
Murder in a Small Town (1999) (TV)
 -  Playing at the movie theater in the first scene.
Angela's Ashes (1999)
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say? (2005) (V)
 -  clips shown
Crossing Criminal Cultures (2007) (V)
 -  clips shown

Spoofed in

Thugs with Dirty Mugs (1939)
Arabs with Dirty Fezzes (1939)
Home Alone (1990)

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