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The leading men ahead of Bogart at Warner Bros. included not only such classic stars as James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, but also actors far less well-known today, such as Victor McLaglen, George Raft and Paul Muni.

Most of the studio's better movie scripts went to these men, and Bogart had to take what was left.

He made films like Racket Busters, San Quentin, and You Can't Get Away with Murder.

The only substantial leading role he got during this period was in Dead End ( 1937 ), while loaned to Samuel Goldwyn, where he portrayed a gangster modeled after Baby Face Nelson.

He did play a variety of interesting supporting roles, such as in Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ) ( in which his character got shot by James Cagney's ).

Bogart was gunned down on film repeatedly by Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, among others.

In Black Legion ( 1937 ), for a change, he played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene called " intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest ".