Hit the Road is a 1941 American comedy crime film directed by Joe May and featuring the Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys alongside Gladys George, Barton MacLane and Evelyn Ankers.

Delinquent gang members Tom, Pig, Ape, and String are trying to break out from the reformatory their confined to, but they are caught and brought to the parole officer Cathy Crookshank.

To remedy this, Miss Crookshank asks the leader of the boys fathers' gang, Valentine, to come to her office.

He is reluctant to help the boys, arguing that he is a reformed man and is now living on a farm with his wife Molly and their daughter Pat.

District attorney Paul Revere Smith, who is Pat's boyfriend, arrives at the farm at the same time.

Inspired by Paul's father, Colonel Smith, Valentine raises $50,000 in an effort to build a trade school and give the boys something to do with themselves.

Tom reveals to the gangster about the money raised for the trade school, and Spike suspects it is in fact a "charity racket."

The boys are unable to stop Spike and his gang when they run Colonel Smith’s car off the road and steal the money.