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On Dress Parade (1939) [N/A]

Featuring:
Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall

Written by:
Tom Reed
Charles Belden

Directed by:
William Clemens, Noel M. Smith


Release Date:
November 18, 1939

Original Title:
On Dress Parade

Alternate Titles:
Dead End Kids at Military School

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 62

Overview from TheMovieDB

The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.

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Overview from Open Movies

Colonel Riker was a hero in the trenches in 1918. He now heads Washington Military Academy. His pal Bill Duncan, dying, requests Riker to school his son Shirley ("Slip"), a juvenile delinquent. Slip starts fights, disputes all regulations, but Riker believes in him. When the truth comes out, that Slip got into the academy as a means of evading reform school, Slip leaves, but Jack Rollins tries to stop him. The squad roughhouses Slip, but in the mêlée, Jack is pushed out a window. Hurt badly, he nevertheless begs that Slip be kept. Slip has a change of heart, but now must contend with the boys who hate him.

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Rankings and Honors

On Dress Parade (1939) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.9/10

Performers

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Production

Additional Music:
M.K. Jerome
Jack Scholl

Art Direction:
Esdras Hartley

Assistant Director:
Phil Bowles
Russell Saunders

Associate Producer:
Bryan Foy

Director:
William Clemens
Noel M. Smith

Director of Photography:
Arthur L. Todd

Editor:
Doug Gould

Executive Producer:
Hal B. Wallis
Jack L. Warner

Original Music Composer:
Howard Jackson

Screenplay:
Tom Reed

Sound:
Stanley Jones

Unit Manager:
Lee Hugunin

Writer:
Charles Belden

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