One contemporary source refers to a scene in which neighbors convince "Sue" that "Braden" is being especially hard on "Frankie," but that scene was not in the viewed print and no other reviews mentioned it. This film marked Gale Page's screen debut. According to a news item in HR, Page replaced Gloria Dickson.
       This was the first Warner Bros. film to feature "The Dead End Kids," and was developed specifically for them. A large number of films were produced from 1938 to 1958 featuring one or more of the original "Dead End Kids." These films were released by several studios as entries into various "series." In addition, some of the actors appeared together in films such as They Made Me a Criminal (see below) in which their roles were based on established "Dead End Kids" characterizations, but their specific character names varied. Buoyed by their success in the play Dead End, Bernard Punsly, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell and Billy Halop were offered a two-year contract by Samuel Goldwyn. In 1937, they made Dead End, after which Goldwyn sold their contract to Warner Bros. Later in 1938, Warner Bros. produced Angels with Dirty Faces (see above). From 1938-39, they made four additional films for Warner Bros. In 1938, Universal borrowed Punsly, Hall, Dell and Halop and added Hally Chester and David Gorcey and made the film Little Tough Guy (see below). In late 1939, Warner Bros. dropped the actors from the payroll after the release of their film On Dress Parade (see below). Universal then decided to make their own series based on Little Tough Guy, featuring Halop as "Tom," Punsly as "Ape," Hall as "Pig," Dell as "String," and Jordan, for a short time, as "Rap." They were joined at various times by David Gorcey, Chester Berger and Harris Berger. The series ran from 1939-43. Ken Goldsmith produced all the features except the last, Keep 'Em Sluggin'. As the "Little Tough Guys," they made a total of nine films and three serials for Universal. From 1940-45, Sam Katzman produced the "East Side Kids," another series featuring some of the same actors, for Monogram. Although Leo Gorcey did not appear in the first film, East Side Kids, he starred as "Muggs" in the other twenty-one films. Gorcey was at times joined by Jordan, Hall and Dell. The last film in the series was Come Out Fighting in 1945. In 1946, Gorcey revamped the "The East Side Kids" into "The Bowery Boys," in a series which ran until 1958. Hall joined Gorcey in that series, as did Dell and Jordan. Dell and Jordan dropped out, however, after making several films. The last film in "The Bowery Boys" series was In the Money, released in 1958 by Allied Artists. For more information, consult the Series Index for entries under "The Dead End Kids," "The East Side Kids" and "The Little Tough Guys." Crime School was a remake of the 1933 Warner Bros. film The Mayor of Hell (see below).