Hell's Kitchen

Jul 8, 1939

1h 21m

★ 6.2

WE'RE FIGHTIN' THE WHOLE WORLD... AND WE'RE TRYIN' TO FIGHT CLEAN!

Overview

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 prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Beth Avery

Margaret Lindsay

Jim Donahue

Ronald Reagan

Buck Caesar

Stanley Fields

Tony Marco

Billy Halop

Joel "Joey" Richards

Bobby Jordan

Gyp Haller

Leo Gorcey

Bingo

Huntz Hall

Ace

Gabriel Dell

Ouch

Bernard Punsly

Soap

Frankie Burke

Hiram Krispan

Grant Mitchell

Mike Garvey

Frederic Tozere

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.

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.

0.0

Call a Messenger

Nov 3, 1939

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.

7.0

Two Alone

Jan 26, 1934

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.

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.

6.1

Fallen

Nov 10, 2016

Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep herself away from, and things begin to take a darker turn when she finds out his true identity.

6.1

They Made Me a Criminal

Jan 21, 1939

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

7.3

Meet John Doe

Mar 14, 1941

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

0.0

Diary of a Lost Woman

Oct 29, 1918

No overview available.

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.

5.0

Kingpin

Mar 1, 1985

Willie, a likeable kid, forms a friendship with Rikki, a new arrival at the reform school. Willie discovers that Rikki is maybe tough enough to take on Karl, the kingpin. Although Rikki is strong, he does not like to fight, but tensions mount as Karl's bullying become more obnoxious. After being shown up by Willie, Karl loses his temper and gives Willie a thrashing. As a result, Willie joins with some other boys in an escape. They steal a car, get drunk, and have a serious accident. Meanwhile Rikki is in hospital, injured in a forestry "accident' engineered by Karl.

6.6

Black Legion

Jan 30, 1937

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

5.0

Reform School Girl

Aug 1, 1957

A teen girl is thrown into reform school for refusing to squeal on her delinquent boyfriend where she ends up meeting his ex-girlfriend and the jealous tempers fly.

6.7

The Unsuspected

Oct 11, 1947

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

6.5

Nickel Boys

Dec 13, 2024

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

0.0

Girl's Reform School

Feb 5, 1956

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

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.

5.2

The Lady Has Plans

Jan 20, 1942

Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.

7.2

The Mayor of Hell

Jun 24, 1933

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.