Dead End Kids Double-Feature
This Warner Brothers Archive Collection offering provides a double feature of two of the last three films in the "Dead End" kids movie series, both coming out in 1939, bracketing "The Angels Wash Their Faces".
"Hell's Kitchen" has the Dead End Kids (Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, and Bernard Punsley) being sent off to a reform school run by an odious, embezzling superintendent, Krispian (Grant Mitchell). A paroled criminal, Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields), starts making contributions to the school, intending to do good. While this works out briefly, Krispian frets about interference and about audits, leading him to want Buck Caesar out of the way, by arranging a likely parole violation. Meanwhile, the Dead End kids' antics to not ingratiate themselves with Krispian. Using a cold meat locker as a punishment leads to a tragedy for Bobby Jordan's character. There is a conflict over a pet dog too. At the resulting funeral, Krispian tries to...
Dead End Kids
The purchase of this DVD through Amazon completes my collection of Dead End Kids movie features. It was purchased for the purpose of completism. The movies themselves, whilst entertaining, were standard DEK fayre and the outcomes very predictable. The whole DEK movie output appears to be a "one trick pony", but as nostalgic material they fill the bill.
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