
Dead End(1937)
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.


“The March Of Crime! Televised on a coast-to-coast hook-up by an underworld lord whose weapons are the latest wonders of science.”
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.

Ralph Byrd
Jeff Shannon

Kay Sutton
Laurel Shannon

Frank Jenks
Peaches Jackson

Marc Lawrence
Melvin Sutter

George Barbier
Uncle Dan Carter

Mickey Kuhn
Buddy Shannon

Oscar O'Shea
Mike Halloran

Dorothy Lee
Mable

Ferris Taylor
Clifford Farrow

Smiley Burnette
Voice of Felix the Dummy
S.O.S Tidal Wave is a crime film released in 1939 exploring themes of husband wife relationship, gangster, hit-and-run, ventriloquist, murder, tv reporter. Directed by John H. Auer, it stars Ralph Byrd, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks. A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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