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  Review by PUNQ ★★

  Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys join forces as Junior G-Men to take down one of the worst Orientals done on screen by a Caucasian when poor Lionel Atwill's career was about to nose dive as a result of porn. Once one of the greatest screen villains. Now a disgraced foe of Hollywood, even lucky to get this shitty part. The serial was fun at times. The "kids" know how to liven the place up and there was plenty of action through-out these 12 episodes this Serial lasted. A lot of the middle episodes were boring, but this started alright and ended with a big battle scene which saved it nicely. In a nice touch, look for the the lighting of the stairs, as seen in the last episode when they invade the Japanese headquarters, which made to symbolize The Land of the Rising Sun.

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  Review by Film Bureau ★★★ 5

  Those Tough Dead East Bowery Kids!

  As a serial, I find it too slow for the first several episodes, we don't spend nearly enough time with big baddie Lionel Atwill, and you really gotta tolerate that tough guy schtick. However, I enjoyed how much we get of Turhan Bey, and the action really ramps up for the final episodes.

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  Review by Larry Yoshida ★★½

  (DEAD END KIDS GO TO WAR, feature length version of the serial). Ace (Billy Halop) and the Dead End Kids (Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsley) hang out at Ace's fathers junkyard, along with Ace's brother Eddie, a pilot/inventor. The kids get entangled with the Black Dragonfly Society (not to be confused with the Black Dragon Society from BLACK DRAGONS) and team with the Junior G-Men. Usual serial mix of kidnappings, rescues, car wrecks and plane crashes. The kids even torture a guy (which seems tame compared to LET'S GO TOUGH where they go on a lynching rampage). They find the plans to bomb Pearl Harbor but don't really do anything with it. Leads to a stupid racist ending where…