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Thread #155041   Message #3644353
Posted By: MGM·Lion
22-Jul-14 - 06:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pathetic goading
Subject: RE: BS: Pathetic goading
Original use of the phrase, from which all others derive acc to wikipedia "disambiguation" entry --

"Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft. The film was written by Rowland Brown, John Wexley and Warren Duff with uncredited assistance from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur."

Have seen it on tv -- v good, with clever ambivalent twist ending. See full Wiki entry.

~M~