Little Tough Guy is a 1938 American crime film that starred several of the Dead End Kids.

This was the first of several films and serials that Universal made using several of the "Kids", whom they borrowed from Warner Bros. Little Tough Guy is in the public domain.

[2] Johnny Boylan's father was sentenced to death for a crime that he was never fully proven to have committed.

He and his family move to a poorer section of the East Side in New York City.

In frustration, Johnny tosses a brick through the judge's car window, which begins his life of crime.