After completing the pilot film for the series, producer Sam Katzman was able to convince former Dead End Kids Bobby Jordan and Leo Gorcey to join the series.
Along with several other series made at the time, it was inspired by the Dead End Kids.
Hit the Road (1941) is a crime comedy film featuring the Dead End Kids.
They are discovered by "Ace" Holden and The Dead End Kids, who do not trust the police enough to help the government.
Although re-release posters and the DVD release credit them as The Dead End Kids they did not go by that title in the on screen credits.
It was the second film that Universal made in their series and the first of three that they made without any of the original Dead End Kids.
She continued with her drama lessons, and a year later she auditioned and won a part in the 1942 Dead End Kids film Tough as They Come.
The 'Dead End' Kids "On Dress Parade" is a 1939 Warner Bros. film that marked the first time The Dead End Kids headlined a film without any other well-known actors.
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After several years as a radio juvenile, Billy was cast as "Tommy Gordon" in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End in 1935, and traveled to Hollywood with the rest of the Dead End Kids when Samuel Goldwyn produced a film version of the play in 1937.
After completing this film, Bobby Jordan left the Universal Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys series, and signed on to Monogram Pictures to costar with fellow Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey in the East Side Kids series.