Editing Dead End (1937 film) (section)

==Production==
Goldwyn wanted [[George Raft]] to play the gangster, but he turned it down, saying the part was too unsympathetic.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/stars-stop-stars-george-raft/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=Why Stars Stop Being Stars: George Raft|date=February 9, 2020}}</ref> ''Dead End'' was filmed from May 4 through mid-July 1937 on a single enormous set.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Aylesworth|first=Thomas G|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodkidschi00ayle|title=Hollywood kids: child stars of the silver screen from 1903 to the present|publisher=New York: Dutton|year=1987|pages=152|isbn=9780525245629 }}</ref>

[[Robert Osborne]], film historian, stated that Joel McCrea had a tough time working with Humphrey Bogart, especially during the scene "on the rooftop, guns ready, and standing very close to each other.  During the filming of that scene, McCrea kept flinching, and the director William Wyler had to keep doing more takes. Finally, Wyler pulled McCrea aside, and he asked him what was wrong. McCrea, embarrassed to tell him, explained that Bogart kept spitting in his face when he was speaking, not exactly what Wyler was expecting to hear or to be the problem.  Happens with actors more than you can imagine."<ref>Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies</ref>