Figure 2.-- "Hell's Kitchen" was one of the Dead End Kids' films. Here we see Tony (Billy Halop) who one of the boys' leaders with Beth (Margaret Lindsay). Billy was one of the original Fead End Kids. |
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Hell's Kitchen was another of the Dead End Kids films. Like "Crime School", it is also set in a reform school that has fallen under the corrupt leadership of a superintendant named Krispan (played by Grant Mitchell). Buck Caesar (played by Stanley Fields) is a paroled convict who tries to improve conditions at the reform school on the advice of his lawyer nephew, Jim Donahue (played by Ronald Reagan). One of the leading boys of the school is Tony (played by Billy Halop). The plot involves the school's hockey team and its contest with a professional team to which the school is expected to lose. Krispan, the corrupt superintendant, is trying to discredit the reformer, Buck Caesar, and get him sent back to prison. At one point one of the boys is locked in a freezer and dies. The boys eventually capture Krispan, make him go through a kind of trial. Krispan is properly punished through legal means, and Buck returns to prison. The boys become the agents of justice.
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