Editing Angels with Dirty Faces (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:James Cagney Pat O'Brien Angels with Dirty Faces Still.jpg|thumb|James Cagney and Pat O'Brien in the endlessly debated final walk]]
''Angels with Dirty Faces'' is considered by some to be one of the finest films in Cagney's career, and a "true example of brilliant American cinema."<ref name=Neibauer173/> In 2008, it was shortlisted by the [[American Film Institute]] for selection in its list of the top 100 movies of the last 100 years.<ref name=AFI>[http://www.afi.com/Docs/100years/10top10-ballot.pdf The American Film Institute's "10 top 10: 100 Years... 100 Movies Ballot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729052932/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100years/10top10-ballot.pdf |date=2017-07-29 }}, ''[[American Film Institute]]'', published January 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2017.</ref> In 2013, [[Steven Van Zandt]] named it as one of his "most favorite mob movies" in an article for ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref name=Zandt>[[Steven Van Zandt|Van Zandt, Steven]]. [https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/steven-van-zandts-favorite-mob-movies-20131202/angels-with-dirty-faces-1938-0158286 "Steven Van Zandt's Favorite Mob Movies"], ''[[Rolling Stone Magazine]]'', published December 2, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2017.</ref> In 2015, ''Slant Magazine'' named it 67th in a list of the "100 Best Film Noirs of All Time".<ref name=SchurrA>Schurr, Amanda. [https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/08/the-100-best-noirs-of-all-time.html?a=1 "The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812221819/http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/08/the-100-best-noirs-of-all-time.html?a=1 |date=12 August 2015 }}, ''[[Slant Magazine]]'', published August 9, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2017.</ref>

Over the years, the film has inspired a number of parodies. In 1939, Warner Bros. released a [[Thugs with Dirty Mugs|cartoon short]] spoofing their "cycle" of crime films; the cartoon's title, ''Thugs with Dirty Mugs'', is a direct pun on ''Angels with Dirty Faces''.<ref name=WellsP>Wells, chapter 25, pp. 141–43.</ref> In the early 1990s, parodies appeared in the form of [[film within a film|films within a film]] in ''[[Home Alone]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Home Alone 2: Lost in New York]]''. These parodies are called ''Angels with Filthy Souls'' and ''Angels with Even Filthier Souls''.<ref name=AFilthySouls>King, Darryn. [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/12/home-alone-gangster-movie "Inside the Making of ''Home Alone''’s Fake Gangster Movie"], ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', published December 22, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2016.</ref><ref name=AmyWilkinson>Wilkinson, Amy. [https://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/06/home-alone-turns-25-chris-columbus "''Home Alone'' turns 25: A deep dive with director Chris Columbus"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520055253/http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/06/home-alone-turns-25-chris-columbus |date=2016-05-20 }}, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', published November 6, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2016.</ref> The former of the two later reappeared in the film [[Detective Pikachu (film)|''Detective Pikachu'']].<ref name="pikachu">{{cite web|url= https://www.newsweek.com/detective-pikachu-home-alone-easter-egg-1421291|title= Did you catch that 'Home Alone' Easter Egg in 'Detective Pikachu'? Here's how it was added into the movie|website= [[Newsweek]]|date= 10 May 2019}}</ref>

In an episode of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', a segment entitled ''Monsters with Dirty Faces'' features "Officer Grover showing a gang leader named Rocky how to effectively wash his face." The film's plot inspired an episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' called ''It's Never Too Late''.<ref name=Neibaur181>Neibaur, p. 181.</ref> The British [[sketch comedy]] TV series ''[[Hale and Pace]]'' parodied the film in a sketch titled ''Angels with Big Trousers'', with [[Norman Pace]] playing "James Cagney as Rocky Pantaloon" and [[Gareth Hale]] playing "Somebody O'Brien as the Irishman."

[[Sham 69]], an English punk rock group, had a hit single called "[[Angels with Dirty Faces (Sham 69 song)|Angels with Dirty Faces]]" in 1978. Frontman [[Jimmy Pursey]] was inspired to write the song after watching Cagney in the film one evening with his friend, Chrissie.<ref name=Deal119>Deal, pp. 119–120.</ref> [[The Pillows]] also have a song based on the film titled "I Want to Be Sullivan," and features a sample taken from the film in the song's intro.

A bar in [[New York City]] was called "[[Rocky Sullivan's]] Pub", named after Cagney's character in the film.

Irish-American poet Michael Lally published a collection called ''Rocky Dies Yellow'' (1975), featuring a still from the film on the cover.