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- Release Date: 1939
- Runtime: 81 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: The Dead End Kids, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey ... see all
- Director: Lewis Seiler, Ewald André Dupont
- Plot: A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to... Read more
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Warner crime melodrama is similar to "Angels Wash Their Faces"...
Aug 24, 2007
Neil Doyle - imdb.com
Aug 24, 2007Neil Doyle - imdb.com
Once again RONALD REAGAN is involved with The Dead End Kids, only this time the romantic interest is supplied by MARGARET LINDSAY rather than ANN SHERIDAN. Otherwise, the plot here resembles the studio's other Dead End Kids entry, ANGELS WASH... Full review
The Dead End Kids Rise Above It
Aug 24, 2007
wesconnorsehny - imdb.com
Aug 24, 2007wesconnorsehny - imdb.com
Observation #1 -- The Dean End Kids are fine -- Led by Billy Halop, the "kids" perform well. In fact, they are better in this "juvenile delinquent" genre than many others. Mr. Halop is strong, with Leo Gorcey, Gabe Dell... Full review
A good Dead End Kids melodrama.
Feb 17, 2001
jim riecken - imdb.com
Feb 17, 2001jim riecken - imdb.com
The Dead End Kids are unfortunate residents of the crookedly run Hudson Boys Shelter. Paroled gangster Buck Ceaser is advised by his lawyer nephew that making a contribution to the shelter would be good for his image. For a while... Full review
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Another Dead End Kids melodrama with the gang getting out of reform school only to become the victims of Mitchell, the tough superintendent at the Hell's Kitchen Shelter. ... Full Article