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...First, in 1930, was Sinbad the Sailor, with a cast of grownups and children. Dissatisfied with the adults in Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods. Among others, she has taught the Mauch twins and Billy Halop, the Dead End Kid. Miss Mack's performers are paid $5 for three hours' rehearsal and a half-hour...
...Lyon's worst fears seemed confirmed when Mr. Towne, a lusty cigar chewer who does much of his cogitating in a Turkish bath, picked New Jerseyite Jimmy Lydon as his Tom Brown, then achieved the casting coup of the century by selecting Billy Halop, ringleader of the Dead End Kids, to play a Rugby blood. Though the Towne publicity department explained this choice as the result of a sensational Halop imitation of Basil Rathbone, alarmed Rugbyites peppered Hollywood with protests that gave the British censors some of the liveliest reading of the year...
...first day, he makes friends with East (Freddie Bartholomew) by buying him a Murphy (roast potato), learns that the lower school is dominated by a cruel fifth former named Flashman. With a British accent imperfectly disguising Cinemactor Halop's Dead End manners, Flashman and his stooges steal Tom's food, almost break his back, torture him by roasting over an open fire. Tom spurs his friends to a revolt against Flashman, culminating in a nose-busting brawl between the two leaders bloodier than anything hitherto exhibited in the juvenile cinema...
...Cagney's The Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind up in a tough cinema reformatory was entirely conceivable. That it would reform them as thoroughly as Crime School does...
...Hour) cinema version enlarges the play's design, intensifies its mood, sharpens its implications. And Producer Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood's swank apartment house, defy a flatfoot (policeman), beat the dickens...