Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Sylvia Sidney
as Drina Gordon

Joel McCrea
as Dave Connell

Humphrey Bogart
as Joe "Baby Face" Martin

Wendy Barrie
as Kay Burton

Claire Trevor
as Francey

Allen Jenkins
as Hunk

Marjorie Main
as Mrs. Martin

Billy Halop
as Tommy Gordon

Huntz Hall
as Dippy

Bobby Jordan
as Angel
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OK, so this is definitely not the cheeriest of stories but Bogart and Joel McCrea are on good form throughout this gritty drama of hardship and depravity on the East Side of New York. "Baby Face Martin" - who, to be fair, maybe benefits a bit optimistically from the moniker - returns to his childhoo...