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Hell's Kitchen is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ewald André Dupont released in USA on 8 july 1939 with Billy Halop
Hell's Kitchen (1939)
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Add to a movie listHell's Kitchen is a 1939 thriller Warner Bros. film starring Ronald Reagan and The Dead End Kids.
Synopsis
Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields) is a paroled convict who makes a contribution to a reform school on the advice of his nephew, Jim Donahue (Ronald Reagan), a lawyer. Jim feels that the boys in the reform school, including Tony (Billy Halop), Gyp (Leo Gorcey), Joey (Bobby Jordan), Bongo (Huntz Hall), Ace (Gabriel Dell), and "Ouch" (Bernard Punsly), could benefit from the contribution and he believes the publicity from it will help his uncle.Actors
Billy Halop
(Tony Marco)
Bobby Jordan
(Joel "Joey" Richards)
Ronald Reagan
(Jim Donahue)
Leo Gorcey
(Gyp Haller)
Huntz Hall
(Bingo)
Dead End Kids
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