Yes, its so that in that movie Deadend, that is where the deadend kids or the Bowery Boys, as they came to be known later, first started out...and Humphrey Bogart was so great as the really, really bad guy...I think Joel McCrea played the good guy...it was really an odd little movie, not at all a humorous movie, but somehow those Deadend kids turned out to be funny in their later selected short movies...
Yes, going to the movies in the 50s was quite the experience...I grew up in Chicago...there was two big movie theatres within a few blocks walking distance from our house...we would get the newspaper on Friday, and see what the lineups would be for Saturday, at both movie theatres...then we would have to decide who had the better lineup for that weekend, and we would all to go that show...I had a brother, and two boy cousins who lived downstairs of me, so all four of us would always go together..we all got a vote as to which movie theatre we were going to and majority won..I never remember us having a tie vote...we always went together, per our parents requests..I guess, altho they did not worry about us like todays parents have to worry about their children, still our parents thought there was some bit of safety in numbers, so they insisted that all 4 of us went together to the movies...we usually always met up with neighborhood friends, or friends from school, so in addition to watching the flicks, we just had fun being together...
One of the movie theatres, even had a live show, in between the two main films...it was called 'Uncle Bob and His Lucky Stars'...but thats a story for another post...suffice it to say, we kids felt that Saturdays were the best day ever...films, cartoon, friends, stomach churning foods, and no school...what more could a kid wish for?