Hell's Kitchen is a 1939 thriller Warner Bros. film starring The Dead End Kids and Ronald Reagan.

Buck Caesar is a paroled convict who makes a contribution to a shelter for teenage reform school parolees on the advice of his nephew, Jim Donahue, a lawyer.

They are caught returning by the superintendent, Hiram Krispan, who calls Tony into his office and threatens to lock Joey, the sickliest of the gang, in the freezer for coming up with the idea to sneak off to town.

Though no longer fully in charge of the shelter, Krispan has continued as an employee and has been carrying two sets of financial books.

Krispan reinstates himself as superintendent of the school, doubling down on punishment and abuse of the boys, telling them that Buck has abandoned them.

Joey is left in the freezer for nine hours and his frozen body is brought back to the dormitory by the guard that finds him.

The boys hold a trial in the shelter's administration building, with Soap serving as prosecuting attorney, and Tony as judge.

As the boys, Jim and Beth sing "Aud Lang Syne" in farewell, Buck walks out to meet a waiting policeman, who is taking him to prison for violation of parole.