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Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. (1940) [NR]

Release Date:
October 1, 1940

Original Title:
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

Alternate Titles:
Dead End Kids vs. Spies Incorporated
Junior G-Men

Genres:
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 103

Overview from TheMovieDB

The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!

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Production

Art Direction:
Ralph M. DeLacy

Associate Producer:
Henry MacRae

Dialogue Coach:
Jacques Jaccard

Director:
Ford Beebe
John Rawlins

Director of Photography:
Jerome Ash

Editor:
Alvin Todd
Louis Sackin
Joseph Gluck

Supervising Editor:
Saul A. Goodkind

Writer:
George H. Plympton
Basil Dickey

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