Series - Dead End Kids

The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.

After his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for survival. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for money while Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime.

Under a doctor's orders, a society matron invites six ruffians to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

A clueless publisher's daughter inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys, and proceeds to run the paper to the ground.

A champion boxer on the lam, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at an Arizona farm for delinquent youths.

Hoodlum Tommy Shay is sentenced to die for the murder of Police Lieutenant Carson, although Tommy was in a poker game at the time with a man calling himself "Denver" Collins who has disappeared, and perjured evidence leads to Tommy's conviction. Tommy's younger brother Danny and his gang of alley kids,"The Little Tough Guys"--- Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap---scheme to save Tommy from the electric chair. Police Lieutenant John Lewis, who arrested Tommy, believes he is innocent and goes to the District Attorney and tries so insistently to have the case reopened that he is demoted to a patrolman in the sticks. Bob Lewis, John's son, a radio bug with detective ambitions, starts out on his own to solve the crime and help his father. Searching for Collins, Bob meets Danny and the Little Tough Guys and they join forces. Acting on a tip, they go to the gambling club owned by Chick Foster and tell him the police have reopened the Carson case and suspect him of being implicated. There, they see a man named Halstead whom they believe to be the missing "Denver" Collins. And with the aid of a phony telegram and a Dictaphone planted by Bob, The Little Tough Guys begin to bring law and order to the Gotham streets.

Group of former reform school kids assigned to corrupt-run shelter. They ally with social workers to oust crooked superintendent and ex-racketeer trying to reform them. Focuses on inmate self-governance dynamics and exposing corruption.

A former inmate tries to start anew but gets entangled with mobsters and crooked officials, leading to his false accusation of arson and homicide. His struggle to clear his name and break free from the criminal underworld unfolds.

The Dead End Kids are sent to military school.

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 him 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.

After being falsely accused of a murder, a group of kids have to find the real killer in order to clear their name.

The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

Gang member, Muggs, aspires to be a jockey and tries to cheat his way to the top.

A gang of street kids work with the FBI in their attempt to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist group.

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

New York City street principles get an East Side kid in trouble at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.

Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.

While a cop steers a kid street-fighter away from being a public nuisance, a petty hoodlum leads a studious kid into a life of crime.

A young street kid idolizes his brother, a gangster who was sent to death row for murder. Frank, a local cop, tries to ensure that the boy and his gang don't wind up the same way as his brother, and enrolls them in a recreational program and gets them jobs. All seems to go well until the dead gangster's brother finds out that the cop who arrested his brother for murder, which resulted in his being executed, was Frank.

The Dead End Kids go after a gang known as the Sea Raiders, which is sinking Allied shipping.

The boys are stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside. At night, they sneak out. Peewee is shot by a grave-digger, and they are forced to seek aid at an old mansion.