Crime School (Warner Bros.) is a mug of cinema mulligan stocked with chunks of such seasoned staples as James Cagney's The Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind up in a tough...
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