They did a really good job of adapting this stage play for the screen. It still feels like a play--and I like that. But the main thing I like about Dead End is that it shows us Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey when they were teen-agers just getting started in show biz. They and the other Dead End Kids--Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Billy Halop, and Bernard Punsly--are magnificent in this. They are very believable as street kids and often very funny.
