“THE DEAD END KIDS think their way out of trouble!”
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Huntz Hall
Pig
Bobby Jordan
Tommy
Gabriel Dell
String
Norman Abbott
Ape
Evelyn Ankers
Sheila
Elyse Knox
Suzanne
Frank Albertson
Frank
Don Porter
Jerry
Shemp Howard
Binky
Samuel S. Hinds
Carruthers
Keep 'Em Slugging is a action, adventure, comedy, crime, drama, romance, war film released in 1943 exploring themes of police, world war ii, hijacking, truck, gang, dead end kids. Directed by Christy Cabanne, it stars Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell. A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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