Editing Angels with Dirty Faces (section)

===Filming===
[[File:Leo Gorcey and James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|{{center|[[Leo Gorcey|Gorcey]] (left) and Cagney (right) in the basement scene, with [[Billy Halop]] in the background}}]]
Principal photography began in June 1938 at Warner's Burbank studios,<ref name=APollock38>Pollock, Arthur. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/52704946/ "News and Comment of Summer Activities in the Stage and Screen World"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026232705/https://www.newspapers.com/image/52704946/ |date=2016-10-26 }}, ''[[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]'', published June 28, 1938. Retrieved December 12, 2015.</ref> and finished a week behind schedule in August, due mostly to the time it took to shoot the scenes of Rocky's gunfight with police and his execution.<ref name="RobertsonP47/48"/>

Cagney's opening scene with the Dead End Kids took place in the basement of a deserted building. By this time, the Dead End Kids "had been throwing their weight around quite a bit with [other] directors and actors". As the scene was being shot, [[Leo Gorcey]] jokingly ad-libbed "he's psychic!, thereby throwing the rhythm of the scene right out the window, souring the whole thing very nicely". So in the next take, just before he said "come here, suckers," Cagney "stiff arm[ed Gorcey] right above the nose. His head went back [and hit] the kid behind him, stunning them both momentarily."<ref name=CagneyonCagney>Cagney, chapter 4, p. 30.</ref> [[Huntz Hall]] saw Gorcey being hit, and later recalled in 1978: "Leo hated [Cagney] for the rest of his life" after the incident.<ref name=Neib>Neibaur, p. 176.</ref>

While filming Rocky's shootout with the police, one scene called for Cagney to be "right at the opening" as machine-gun bullets took out the windows above his head. At this point in his career, Cagney had experience with the unpredictability of using live gunfire and he later recalled that either "common sense or a hunch" made him cautious. He told Curtiz to "[shoot the scene] in [[superimposition|process]]," and as he got out of the way, "Burke, the professional machine gunner, fired the shots". One of the bullets deflected hitting "the steel edge of the window," and going "right through the wall" where Cagney's head had been. This experience convinced Cagney that "flirting this way with real bullets was ridiculous".<ref name=CagP27-28>Cagney, chapter 4, pp. 27–28.</ref>

Rocky's execution was shot at the [[Sing Sing|Sing Sing Correctional Facility]].<ref name=WNYC>Mogul, Fred. [http://www.wnyc.org/story/84825-luring-tourists-up-the-river-to-the-big-house/ "Luring Tourists Up the River to The Big House"], ''[[WNYC]]'', published January 8, 2005. Retrieved December 12, 2015.</ref><ref name=ObserverUK>Coscia, Elizabeth. [http://observer.com/2014/06/sing-sing-correctional-facility-plans-dark-museum/ "Sing Sing Correctional Facility Plans Dark Museum"], ''[[observer.com|Observer]]'', published June 23, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2015.</ref> The death house featured in the film was designed by state architect [[Lewis Pilcher]]. It went into service in February 1922.<ref name=Christianson>Christianson, p. 17.</ref> For years, viewers have wondered if Rocky really turns yellow as he is being strapped into the electric chair, or if he is faking it in order to keep his promise to Jerry. Cagney later said: "In looking at the film, it is virtually impossible to say which course Rocky took—which is just the way I wanted it. I played [the role] with deliberate ambiguity so that the spectators can [form their own opinions]. It seems to me it works out fine in either case."<ref name=CagneyonCagney2>Cagney, chapter 4, pp. 32–33.</ref>