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Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. (1940)

Directed by Ford Beebe, John Rawlins

Overview

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!

Rated NR | Length 103 minutes

Actors

Russell Hicks | Huntz Hall | Edgar Edwards | Gabriel Dell | Kenneth Howell | Billy Halop | Bernard Punsly | Phillip Terry | Cy Kendall | Victor Zimmerman | Ben Taggart | Gene Rizzi | Florence Halop | Roger Daniel | Kenneth Lundy