Dead End

Dead End is one of those ’30s melodramas with something for everybody — a social conscience, tough-guy dialogue, Bogie as a gangster, and the Dead End Kids exuding raw charisma. This disc does justice to cinematographer Gregg Toland’s black-and-white camera magic, though a music-and-effects track promised on the jacket, which would have isolated Alfred Newman’s jazzy Gershwinesque score, is nowhere to be found. B