WHAT TO BINGE ON TV Stream On! ‘Dead End,’ Bogart and the Bowery Boys

By Peter Hummers

In 1933, playwright Sidney Kingsley reportedly walked through a Manhattan slum and watched kids swimming in the filthy East River. Beyond this shabbiness was a nearby luxury building. The juxtaposition of the poor and the privileged inspired him to write the play Dead End . It was the first project to feature the so-called “Dead End Kids,” known later as the “Bowery Boys,” who went on to play similar characters in quite a few B-picture comedies.

DEAD END

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The 1937 film adaptation of Dead End was a grim drama set in a poverty-stricken riverside neighborhood in New York City, where reform school is

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