Angels with Filthy Souls may not be an actual flick, but the faux filmnoir is as iconic as the 1990 movie in which it appears.
Giving Home Alone one of its most popular lines — "Keep the change, you filthy animal" — the gangster picture that helped Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) pull off a few ruses paid homage to an actual film,Angels with Dirty Faces, which was releasedNov.
26, 1938. To celebrate the probable anniversary of the faux classic,Home Alone cinematographer Julio Macat details howAngels with Filthy Souls was created — a job so well done, even stars noted they believed the gangster picture was the real deal ("My entire childhood, I thought the old-timey movie that Kevin watches in Home Alone ...was actually an old movie,".
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