Der berüchtigte Gangster William Rocky Sullivan kehrt nach der Verbüßung einer Gefängnisstrafe in das Chicagoer Stadtviertel zurück, in dem er aufwuchs, und wo er einst seine kriminelle Karriere startete. Dort trifft er auf seinen Jugendfreund und damaligen Komplizen Jerome Jerry Connelly, der inzwischen ein geläuterter Priester ist und sich dem Kampf gegen die Jugendkriminalität verschrieben hat. Ein Mittel dazu sind Basketballspiele zwischen jugendlichen Gangs, die aber immer wieder daran scheitern, dass sich keiner der Kids an die Spielregeln halten will - ganz so wie im täglichen Leben auf der Straße, bei dem sich stets das Recht des Stärkeren durchsetzt.
In den Straßen von New Yorks Lower East Side regiert das Verbrechen, denn für viele ist das kriminelle Milieu der einzige Weg aus der Armut und der Hoffnungslosigkeit. Auch Drinas Bruder Tommy droht abzurutschen und so setzt die zielstrebige Schönheit alles daran, ihn vor dem kriminellen Abgrund zu bewahren. Ihre Pläne scheinen jedoch zum Scheitern verurteilt, als der skrupellose Killer "Baby Face" Martin in sein altes Viertel zurückkehrt und Tommy in seine Machenschaften hineinziehen will. Verzweifelt wendet sich Drina an ihren Jugendfreund Dave, doch auch er kann nur helfen, wenn er zu den gleichen Mitteln greift wie Martin. Eine Sackgasse, aus der es kein Entkommen zu geben scheint!
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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.
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.
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.
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
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.
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
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.
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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.
The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
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.
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!
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.