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Post by Addie on Aug 21, 2009 21:57:45 GMT 2
I just want to welcome everyone who joins this board! Thanks for joining and please have fun!!!!
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Post by billyhalop on Oct 24, 2009 7:43:19 GMT 2
Just wanna introduce myself...I'm Shell from Billy Halop Online. Thanks for the link to the boards!
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Post by sunflower on Nov 9, 2009 20:32:51 GMT 2
Hi Shell! I must say I love your site on Billy Halop. I've visited it quite a few times. Hope you'll keep it going!
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Post by Addie on Nov 9, 2009 21:23:53 GMT 2
Welcome Shell! Thanks for joining! I also gotta say that I love your site. It's a most amazing site dedicated to Billy. Me and my sister (sunflower) love looking at the pictures and things. ;D
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Post by intolerant on Jun 24, 2010 20:41:47 GMT 2
I was first introduced to the Dead End Kids the same way movie audiences were in 1937 when Dead End was first shown. I first saw it on late night TV in 1976 when I was 16. Before this I never heard of them & the main reason I wanted to see Dead End was because of Humphrey Bogart for it was a very significant movie & one of Bogarts best work of the 1930's.
I was quite impacted by these roughnecks & I didn't like them at first & I kept hoping Bogart would put them in their place like James Cagney later did in Angels With Dirty Faces. Eventually they began to grow on me & I got used to them. I can see why they were such a hit in both the 1935 Sidney Kingsley play & the 1937 film. Dead End is still a great movie & timeless more than ever & it's one of my favorites.
I have Dead End, Crime School, Angels With Dirty Faces & They Made Me A Criminal in my collection. I've seen Hells Kitchen (a re-hash of Crime School) but I haven't seen Angels Wash Their Faces. I used to watch a lot of their Monogram B quickies as the East Side Kids & that was ok when I was a kid. I've never seen any of their films as the Bowery Boys & I probably never will from what I know. By the late 40's they were just played for laughs, Tom Foolery & Three Stooges like antics & routines which I think was a waste of their talents.
I have one of their Universal films as the Little Tough Guys from 1938 called "Little Tough Guy" with Billy Halop & Huntz Hall & some new faces & no Leo Gorcey. It was a serious drama & it was ok. I also have one of the East Side Kids films from 1941 called "Pride Of The Bowery" with Leo Gorcey as the leader & that was an ok serious drama. One of each of these is enough for me.
But I like them best as the original Dead End Kids when they were supporting the big stars like Bogart, Cagney & Garfield in the big budget Samuel Goldwyn & Warner Bros pictures. I think that was their best work when they were used to their best advantage as opposed to their own series later. I don't think any of them had enough screen presence to really effectively carry a film as a group on their own without a strong lead & certainly not by themselves individually.
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Post by sunflower on Jul 7, 2010 16:33:08 GMT 2
It seems like after the first few films, the studio didn't know what to do with them and just kinda of shoved them into whatever movie or serial came along. Also always keeping them as a group of delinquents. Who knows maybe they might have had even more success if they were able to grow and change into a different type of role. Just because they started out as a group of delinquents doesn't mean that had to stay that way in every single movie. Even though them being bad was good lol!!
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Post by Addie on Jul 29, 2010 4:34:12 GMT 2
Welcome intolerant! ;D Glad you found your way to this board. I love the Dead End Kids for many reasons. The movies were great! Even though some of the plot lines were similar and they basically were always some type of delinquents, I think each and every movie is great in it's own way. My favorites are Angels and Crime School. Another reason why I love them is because their movies are constantly reeling people in-- of any age. These movies aren't just for people who grew up in the '30s or '40s but for people of every age group-- from any decade. Intolerant you said you got into them in the 70s when you were a teen.... that's cool. My sister (sunflower) and I got into them about 2 years ago when i was only 18. I love that their movies--their legacy can do that. And yes, it would have been nice to see them branch out and not be troublesome delinquents all the time but-- I have to say, I love them that way!!!!
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