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On Dress Parade is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Clemens released in USA on 18 november 1939 with Billy Halop
On Dress Parade (1939)
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Add to a movie listThe 'Dead End' Kids "On Dress Parade" is a 1939 Warner Bros. film that marked the first time The Dead End Kids headlined a film without any other well-known actors.
Synopsis
A hero of World War I, Colonel William Duncan (Don Douglas), is on his deathbed. He summons his old friend, Colonel Mitchell Reiker (John Litel) to ask him if he will care for his son Slip (Leo Gorcey) when he dies. Reiker agrees, and when Duncan passes, Slip, who does not want to leave the neighborhood he grew up in, is tricked into attending the military school that Reiker is in charge of.Actors
Billy Halop
(Cadet Maj. Rollins)
Bobby Jordan
(Cadet Ronny Morgan)
Huntz Hall
(Cadet Johnny Cabot)
Gabriel Dell
(Cadet Georgie Warren)
Leo Gorcey
(Slip Duncan)
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