The Angels Wash Their Faces 1939  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Frankie Thomas, Bonita Granville, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Hamilton, Marjorie Main, Henry O'Neill, John Ridgely, Minor Watson
In this sequel to "Angels with Dirty Faces," a young man (Frankie Thomas), who is already in trouble, looks for more when he joins the Dead End Kids.
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 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Harry Hayden, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Joe Downing, Edward Pawley
Father Jerry (Pat O'Brien) tries to help his parish kids develop honest characters. He runs into problems when his childhood friend, Rocky (James Cagney), introduces the children into the criminal side of life. Both Cagney and Director Michael Curtiz were nominated for Oscars.
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Blues in the Night 1941  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson, Wallace Ford, Howard Da Silva, Elia Kazan, Billy Halop, Peter Whitney, Joyce Compton, Herbert Heywood, George Lloyd, Charles C. Wilson, Matt McHugh
"Jigger" Pine (Richard Whorf) forms a jazz band, and the trumpeter Leo's (Jack Carson) wife Ginger "Character" Powell (Priscilla Lane) is their singer. They wait for that big break that doesn't come and spend their time riding the trains from one small gig to another. On one train ride they meet gangster Del Davis (Lloyd Nolan) who offers the band a job at his New Jersey roadhouse. They begin performing for Davis and employ sultry Kay (Betty Field) as their singer–and, too late, learn how mobster's moll Kay can tear the band apart.
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 Crime School 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Billy Halop, Humphrey Bogart, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Gale Page, Charles Trowbridge, Milburn Stone, Harry Cording
This is the story of Warden Mark Braden's (Humphrey Bogart) attempts to rehabilitate the boys in his reform school.
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Dangerous Years 1947  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Pierson
Cast: Billy Halop, Ann E. Todd, Jerome Cowan, Anabel Shaw, Richard Gaines, Scotty Beckett, Darryl Hickman, Harry Shannon, Dickie Moore, Donald Curtis
Juvenile delinquent Danny (Billy Halop) kills a popular teacher when he and his gang pull off a robbery. The resulting trial is a real tearjerker. One of Marilyn Monroe's early (and brief) appearances.
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 Dead End 1937  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Main, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan
New York's lower East Side is the setting for this insightful film about the escape from poverty through crime. This was the film debut of the Dead End Kids, which evolved into the East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys.
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Hell's Kitchen 1939 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ewald Andre Dupont, Lewis Seiler
Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Ronald Reagan, Stanley Fields, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Grant Mitchell, Arthur Loft, Bernard Punsly, Frankie Burke
This remake of "The Mayor of Hell," is about ex-con Buck's (Stanley Fields) attempts to turn the Dead End Kids around and steer them in the right direction.
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Little Tough Guy 1938  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, David Gorcey, Hal E. Chester, Helen Parrish, Robert Wilcox, Marjorie Main, Olin Howland, Jackie Searl, Peggy Stewart
When the father is wrongly convicted of murder, his son (Billy Halop) puts together a group of youngsters to form a gang, and a crime spree follows. The "Little Tough Guys" were formed from a group that had formerly been in "Dead End Kids" movies, and a series of films followed with the new group. .
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Sky Raiders 1941 N/R, 230 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Cast: Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Reed Hadley, Roy Gordon, John Holland, Irving Mitchell, Robert Armstrong, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alex Callam, Kathryn Adams, Jacqueline Dalya, Jean Fenwick
In this 12-episode serial, a new, top secret fighter plane is nearing completion and ready for testing. But there are plenty of enemy agents who have designs on the plane.
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They Made Me a Criminal 1939 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, May Robson, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Ward Bond
After he thinks he has accidentally killed a man, a prizefighter (John Garfield) retreats to a children's home where he finds security.
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Tom Brown's School Days 1940 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Adventures at Rugby
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Josephine Hutchinson, Billy Halop, Polly Moran, Hughie Green, Ernest Cossart, Alec Craig, Gale Storm, Barlowe Borland, Forrester Harvey
Despite the fact that the new headmaster at Rugby boarding school, Doctor Arnold (Cedric Hardwicke) has a reputation for lack of discipline, Squire Brown (Ernest Cossart) supports his policy and sends his son, Tom (Jimmy Lydon), to Rugby. When Tom arrives at the school and immediately suffers from the hazing of school bullies, Tom has a solution: organize the other students to fight back, any way they can, against the bullies.
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Too Late for Tears 1949 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Killer Bait
Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller, Barry Kelley, Denver Pyle, Virginia Mullen, Richard Irving, George Mann, Billy Halop, June Storey
While driving on a secluded highway, the Palmers–Jane (Lizabeth Scott) and Alan (Arthur Kennedy)–are so intent on their argument that their convertible veers off the road. Alan turns on the blinkers, another car passes them, the driver thinks the lights are a signal, and he tosses a bag containing $60,000 into the Palmers' car. Jane's insistence on keeping the cash leads to a tangled web of deceit and murder.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder 1939 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel, Henry Travers, Harvey Stephens, Harold Huber, Joe Sawyer, George E. Stone, Joe Downing
After being sent to Sing Sing on a trumped-up charge, Frank's (Humphrey Bogart) girlfriend, Madge (Gale Page), tries to gain his release.
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| 1. The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
2. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
3. Blues in the Night (1941)
4. Crime School (1938)
5. Dangerous Years (1947)
6. Dead End (1937)
7. Hell's Kitchen (1939)
8. Little Tough Guy (1938)
9. Sky Raiders (1941)
10. They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
11. Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
aka: Adventures at Rugby
12. Too Late for Tears (1949)
aka: Killer Bait
13. You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
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