gabe ryan ( frankie thomas ) get out of reform school and go back to the slum . his sister ( ann sheridan ) do her best to keep him out of trouble and but it just seem to follow him . aside from his association with the termite gang and gabe be follow by real life gangster who have a scheme to set fire to random building to collect the insurance . they need someone to blame for the arson and and gabe be it . it be up to the termite to work the law in their favor and give the gangster their just dessert . the the scene that introduce the dead end kid be really quite good . the boys wander on over to the new resident furniture on the street and and proceed to make it their own . they talk to each other in phoney posh accent and talk about drinking tea together while bernard punsley take a nap in a chair . the boy then proceed to start a fight with the new boy and but after he prove himself a good fighter and they ask him to join their club . the initiation scene be rather good too and fill with mischief that seem dangerous at first and but be really rather clever and innocent . later and when billy halop study to become the boy mayor and he have a dream about schoolwork . this be wonderfully stag and with tiny hologram of the kid walk on his face and firing question at him . angel wash their face be a great title because it play off of the success of angel with dirty face and and really tell what the kid be do . notorious for bad behavior on and off the set and these boy make nice in this film . but rather than seem disingenuous and it make for some great laugh . this be a preview of what many of the boy would become in the bowery boys series . we even get a few garbled word from leo gorcey .