Movies: Dead end kids

  • 1938
    Angels with Dirty Faces

    Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

    Angels with Dirty Faces

    7.51938HD

    Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood....

    Angels with Dirty Faces
  • 1937
    Dead End

    Dead End (1937)

    Dead End

    6.91937HD

    Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also cross...

    Dead End
  • 1939
    They Made Me a Criminal

    They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

    They Made Me a Criminal

    6.31939HD

    A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....

    They Made Me a Criminal
  • 1938
    Crime School

    Crime School (1938)

    Crime School

    6.31938HD

    In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt ...

    Crime School
  • 1939
    Call a Messenger

    Call a Messenger (1939)

    Call a Messenger

    01939HD

    A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother...

    Call a Messenger
  • 1940
    You're Not So Tough

    You're Not So Tough (1940)

    You're Not So Tough

    4.31940HD

    The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabil...

    You're Not So Tough
  • 1939
    Hell's Kitchen

    Hell's Kitchen (1939)

    Hell's Kitchen

    6.21939HD

    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 derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to pri...

    Hell's Kitchen
  • 1938
    Little Tough Guy

    Little Tough Guy (1938)

    Little Tough Guy

    5.91938HD

    The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who ...

    Little Tough Guy
  • 1940
    Junior G-Men

    Junior G-Men (1940)

    Junior G-Men

    6.11940HD

    A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subve...

    Junior G-Men
  • 1939
    Angels Wash Their Faces

    Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

    Angels Wash Their Faces

    6.41939HD

    A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and mu...

    Angels Wash Their Faces
  • 1940
    Give Us Wings

    Give Us Wings (1940)

    Give Us Wings

    61940HD

    Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps....

    Give Us Wings
  • 1941
    Mob Town

    Mob Town (1941)

    Mob Town

    01941HD

    Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman....

    Mob Town
  • 1940
    Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

    Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. (1940)

    Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

    01940HD

    The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fift...

    Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
  • 1939
    On Dress Parade

    On Dress Parade (1939)

    On Dress Parade

    6.31939HD

    The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school....

    On Dress Parade
  • 1941
    Sea Raiders

    Sea Raiders (1941)

    Sea Raiders

    61941HD

    A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs....

    Sea Raiders
  • 1942
    Junior G-Men of the Air

    Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)

    Junior G-Men of the Air

    61942HD

    A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy....

    Junior G-Men of the Air
  • 1943
    Keep 'Em Slugging

    Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)

    Keep 'Em Slugging

    5.51943HD

    A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the dep...

    Keep 'Em Slugging
  • 1942
    Tough as They Come

    Tough as They Come (1942)

    Tough as They Come

    01942HD

    The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them....

    Tough as They Come
  • 1942
    Mug Town

    Mug Town (1942)

    Mug Town

    71942HD

    Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly...

    Mug Town