
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Seen it?1940 | 103 min | Thriller, Action, Drama, Crime, Adventure
Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
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Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for crime-drama fans, anyone who likes to be kept guessing and action fans. If you loved Point Blank or Foreign Correspondent, start here.
- The mood
- Tense, dark and gritty.
- The pace
- Takes its time with its characters, at 1 hr 43 min.
- What might put you off
- Made in 1940: an older pace and style.
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!
How it earned its rating
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- Reach & staying powerNot counted
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- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
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Cast & crew
Directed by Ford Beebe, John Rawlins
- Billy HalopBilly Barton
- Huntz HallGyp
- Gabriel DellTerry
- Bernard PunslyLug
- Kenneth LundyBuck
- Kenneth HowellHarry Trent
- Roger DanielMidge
- Phillip TerryJim Bradford
- Russell HicksColonel Barton
- Cy KendallBrand