The Angels Wash Their Faces is a 1939 Warner Bros. film directed by Ray Enright and starring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan and the Dead End Kids.

He torches one of his apartment complexes so that he can collect the insurance money, but one of the kids named Sleepy is killed in the fire.

Joy has devoted her life to helping Gabe and neglects her other interests such as rallying against city-government corruption, which pleases Martino.

[1] It was changed to reference the title of the unrelated film Angels with Dirty Faces,[2] which also starred Ann Sheridan and the Dead End Kids along with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and had been released the previous year.

Variety wrote that although Ray Enright sacrificed "plausibility for action," he had "directed with an eye for the spectacular, including a thrilling fire scene and a dramatic courtroom sequence" and never let "the swift pace ease" while the "screenplay holds no voids in the rapid-fire plot tempo.