On Dress Parade

Nov 18, 1939

1h 2m

★ 6.5

Overview

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

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

On Dress Parade Trailers

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Cast

Cadet Maj. Rollins

Billy Halop

Cadet Ronny Morgan

Bobby Jordan

Cadet Johnny Cabot

Huntz Hall

Cadet Georgie Warren

Gabriel Dell

Slip Duncan

Leo Gorcey

Dutch (as Bernard Punsley)

Bernard Punsly

Col. Michael Riker

John Litel

Cadet Lt. Murphy

Frankie Thomas

Mrs. Neeley

Cecilia Loftus

Capt. Evans Dover

Selmer Jackson

Father Ryan

Aldrich Bowker

Hathaway

Douglas Meins

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 go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.

6.0

Give Us Wings

Dec 20, 1940

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

6.8

Taps

Dec 20, 1981

Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

5.9

Macon County Line

Aug 8, 1974

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at the time of release, purported to be based on a true story.

7.0

Dead End

Aug 27, 1937

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 crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

6.1

They Made Me a Criminal

Jan 21, 1939

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

6.2

Cadet Kelly

Mar 7, 2002

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

0.0

The Silence

Nov 6, 1975

A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.

7.8

Napoleon

Jan 10, 1927

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

7.5

Angels with Dirty Faces

Nov 26, 1938

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.

7.8

The City and the Dogs

Jul 18, 1985

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder.

0.0

Tough as They Come

Jun 5, 1942

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.

5.5

Keep 'Em Slugging

Mar 1, 1943

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 department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

6.4

The Ogre

Sep 12, 1996

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.

7.0

Mug Town

Dec 18, 1942

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 with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.

6.4

The Strange One

Apr 12, 1957

A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.

6.3

Crime School

May 10, 1938

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 guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.

7.0

The Winslow Boy

Sep 24, 1948

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

6.4

Angels Wash Their Faces

Aug 26, 1939

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 murder he didn't commit.

0.0

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

Oct 1, 1940

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 fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!