The "Dead End Kids" - Dippy Traditional Geocache

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"Dippy" played by Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall, was one of the original "Dead End Kid" actors for the stage play and movie "Dead End".

In the filthy slums of New York, wealthy people have built luxury apartments there because of the view of the picturesque East River. While they live in opulence, the destitute and dirt poor live nearby in crowded, filthy tenements.

At the end of the street is a dock on the East River; to the left are the luxury apartments and to the right are the slums. The Dead End Kids, led by Tommy Gordon (Billy Halop), are a petty gang of street urchins who are already well onto a path to a life of crime. Members of the gang besides Tommy include, Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T.B. (Gabriel Dell), and Milty (Bernard Punsly), the new kid on the block in search of friends. Spit is a bit malicious with a cruel streak and initially bullies the newcomer and takes his pocket change. However, Tommy eventually lets Milty join the gang and turns out to be both a loyal and generous friend.


Huntz Hall first appeared on Broadway in the 1935 production of Dead End, a play written and directed by Sidney Kingsley. Hall was then cast along with the other Dead End Kids in the 1937 film Dead End, directed by William Wyler and starring Humphrey Bogart. Hall later played the increasingly buffoonish Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones in 48 "Bowery Boys" entries, graduating to top billing when his longtime comedy partner, Leo Gorcey, left the series in 1956. He also appeared in films not associated with the comedy team, such as his portrayal of Private Carraway in the war film, A Walk in the Sun, in 1945.

By 1976, Hall drove around Hollywood in a brand-new Rolls-Royce, thanks to his offshore oil well investments. Plans to produce a movie series, "The Ghetto Boys" (a take on "The Bowery Boys"), did not finalize. Huntz's son Gary, a Yale honor graduate, became an Episcopal priest and rector. Huntz himself was active in lay Catholic affairs. In 1973, he participated in Princess Grace of Monaco's Council for Drug Abuse, which was part of the Catholic Office of Drug Education.

In 1977 he played movie mogul Jesse Lasky in Ken Russell's film Valentino. He performed in dinner theater productions before retiring in 1994.

Hall died from congestive heart failure on January 30, 1999 at the age of 79

In total the various teams that began life as 'The Dead End Kids' made 89 films and three serials for four different studios during their 21 year long film career. The team was awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, which can be found at the corner of La Brea and Hollywood. One notable aspect of the group's history is their transition from stark drama to comedy. When they began, in "Dead End" and their other early films, their characters were serious, gritty, genuinely menacing young hoodlums. But by the height of their career, their movies were essentially comedies, with the Kids depicted as low-class but basically harmless, likable teens - comic caricatures of their former selves.
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