Bernard Punsly

Movies18

• Movie7.5

  CrimeDrama

  Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

  Angels with Dirty Faces

  1938 · 368 votes

• Movie6.3

  CrimeDrama

  A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

  They Made Me a Criminal

  1939 · 40 votes

• Movie7.0

  CrimeDrama

  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.

  Dead End

  1937 · 158 votes

• Movie7.0

  DocumentaryComedy

  Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

  Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

  1983 · 3 votes

• Movie6.6

  Drama

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

  On Dress Parade

  1939 · 5 votes

• Movie6.3

  ActionAdventure

  A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.

  Junior G-Men of the Air

  1942 · 3 votes

• Movie6.8

  Drama

  A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.

  Hell's Kitchen

  1939 · 6 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.

  Angels Wash Their Faces

  1939 · 9 votes

• Movie9.0

  DramaCrime

  The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.

  Tough as They Come

  1942 · 1 votes

• Movie6.4

  CrimeDrama

  In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.

  Crime School

  1938 · 25 votes

• Movie7.3

  CrimeAdventure

  Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

  Give Us Wings

  1940 · 3 votes

• Movie8.5

  DramaComedy

  Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.

  Mug Town

  1942 · 2 votes

• Movie5.0

  CrimeDrama

  The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.

  You're Not So Tough

  1940 · 4 votes

• Movie5.7

  CrimeDrama

  The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.

  Little Tough Guy

  1938 · 13 votes

• Movie6.5

  ActionWar

  A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.

  Sea Raiders

  1941 · 2 votes

• Movie6.5

  AdventureCrime

  A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism

  Junior G-Men

  1940 · 5 votes

• Movie7.0

  CrimeComedy

  Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.

  Hit the Road

  1941 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  ComedyDrama

  Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

  Mob Town

  1941 · 1 votes