A spin-off from the serious social drama Dead End, the East Side Kids lead by Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, appeared in half a dozen other major films, including Angels with Dirty Faces with Cagney and Bogart and the John Garfield starrer They Made Me a Fugitive. Universal had a competing group called the Little Tough Guys that included many of the same actors. Now we tend to think of them (those who still do think of them that is) as the Bowery Boys, which the moniker the group appeared under for a looong series of cheapie Monogram B-Pictures.
