(1:09pm Jan 30, 2012)

Hoodlums and Heartbreak in Old New York!

It’s gentrification 1930’s-style, when Director William Wyler’s 1937 film Dead End screens at 92YTribeca on February 1 and the slum-dwelling Dead End Kids find themselves living next door to a new luxury high-rise.

Hollywood social-message melodrama at its finest, William Wyler and Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of Sidney Kingsley’s Dead End is a masterpiece of storytelling, film technique and naked emotion. As a portrait of New York’s haves and have-nots, it’s as vital as any other movie you’ll see this year.

Host Elliott Kalan and a special guest will discuss the special qualities of urban real estate, why Bogie is still the best, and how a rough-edges street gang somehow became slapstick movie stars.