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#10,658 All-time worldwide
#10 1938 releases

Movie profile

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938 · 97 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.7M
Budget $633,000
Gross minus budget $1.1M
ROI 2.69x

Domestic gross

$850,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$850,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$153,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Angels with Dirty Faces ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,658 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1938 releases #10 Release-year chart position of 16 titles Ranked against movies released in 1938. Studio / company #260 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,660 Crime of 1,962 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) earned a reported $1.7M worldwide against a reported $633.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.69x. In this database it currently ranks #10,658 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #10 among 1938 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,700,000
Budget
$633,000
Gross minus budget
$1,067,000
ROI
2.69x
Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 26, 1938
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart1938 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1938, Angels with Dirty Faces is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.7M, reported production budget is $633,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.1M, ROI is 2.69x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,658 all-time in the current chart set and #10 among 1938 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.