Hell's Kitchen (1939)

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that nobody here is familiar with this movie. It may be a safe bet that even our oldest members on the chamber have never seen it, or remember it. And if that's the case it's certainly understandable, this is not only a very unpopular movie, it has been almost completely forgotten by time and has never been released on video at all.

And yet the fact remains that this film is a bit of movie history, it is THE last movie ever made to star the Dead End Kids. When they made their next picture in 1940 they were officially changed to the East Side Kids who went from being hard broiled juvenile delinquents who were always getting treated barbarically by the system, to the more lighthearted, dimwitted kids who brought us the haunted house comedies Ghosts on the Loose, Boys of the City and Spooks Run Wild.

But THIS movie was the end of an era, the end of the Dead End Kids whose names were a dime a dozen and usually something different every time, and every movie resulted in somebody getting a beating by an authority figure who knew better but was just a power hungry maniac.

I never would've known about this movie either, except when Ronald Reagan died, I caught the last 20 minutes or so on TCM early one morning after being up all night with the flu. It took a while to see the movie in full, and since then it's been on TCM again a few times, but now not for several years. I never expected to find it available on Youtube, but there it was and I'm hoping everybody here will give it a once over to see what they think of it, and if you do I hope you enjoy it. I love these guys.

Didn't see this one either.

Too old.

Supernova wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb

Gets lonely out there, don't it?

I'm familiar with the Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan though!

I like old movies ~ the older the better. Netflix doesn't carry this, so I'll watch the these clips when I can. Sounds interesting.

Bluesmama wrote:I like old movies ~ the older the better. Netflix doesn't carry this, so I'll watch the these clips when I can. Sounds interesting.

I find that to be true too, earlier I was thinking about the funniest movies I've ever seen and they all go back to the glorious days of black and white film.