“DEAD END” KIDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 8

“DEAD END” KIDS

A realistic human drama of the tragedy, laughter and heart-ache found on a big city’s streets, Universal’s thrilling document of modern youth, “Little Tough Guy” shows finally tonight at the Regent, with the famous “rroad End” kids Helen Parrish, Jackie Searl and Robert Wilcox featured. Filled with elemental emotions, lifted alive and throbbing from life itself, the picture offers Billy Halop and the other youthful stars of “Dead End” their most important opportunities since “Crime School.” Helen Parrish, the “meanie” of Deanna Durbin’s film, “Mad About Music,” has the role of the sister. Robert Wilcox is seen as her loyal friend and Marjorie Main is cast as the mother. Jackie Searl plays the role of a rich boy who turns to a life of petty crime “just for the thrill.” The story is a simple and powerful narrative of what takes place in the lives of a mother, son and daughter when the father is sent to prison find the family moves to a sordid tenement district. The boy becomes involved with a touch lot of young hoodlums. Embittered by his father’s conviction. he takes over leadership of the “mob” and is soon the most ruthless and daring of the lot. Captured while trying to hold up a theatre, the boys are sent to a reform school, where for the first time they learn the true values of life.