Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)While a cop steers a kid street-fighter away from being a public nuisance, a petty hoodlum leads a studious kid into a life of crime. Director:Wallace Fox |
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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)While a cop steers a kid street-fighter away from being a public nuisance, a petty hoodlum leads a studious kid into a life of crime. Director:Wallace Fox |
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Leo Gorcey | ... | |
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Bobby Jordan | ... |
Danny Breslin
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Huntz Hall | ... |
Limpy
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Clancy
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Warren Hull | ... |
Officer Tom Brady
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Charlotte Henry | ... |
Mary Breslin
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Bobby Stone | ... |
Monk Martin
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Donald Haines | ... | |
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Ernest Morrison | ... |
Scruno
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David Gorcey | ... | |
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Martha Wentworth | ... |
Mrs. Brady
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Jack Mulhall | ... |
Officer Nick Sherrill
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Eddie Foster | ... |
Slats Morrison
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Dennis Moore | ... |
Dorgan
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Tony Carson | ... |
Dutch
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East Side Kids: Fighters Danny Breslin and Muggs McGinnis, once boyhood chums, have drifted apart. Policeman Tom Brady - because his own former friend fell into a life of crime and got the electric chair - takes rough and tumble Muggs under his wing to turn the lad's life around, but Danny, brother of Mary Breslin (whom Tom plans to marry), is also at risk. Everyone believes studious Danny is on his way to being president someday, but while Tom's focus goes toward putting Muggs on the straight and narrow, ambitious petty criminal Monk Martin's been working slyly on steering Danny into a life of crime. Adding a little complication, racketeers get involved, trying to set up a fixed fight with Muggs. Written by statmanjeff
I enjoyed this lightweight pre-war drama/comedy.
In those days I guess life was simple. Tough Irish kids had golden hearts if you could just get them a mentor in the police department. Fighting showed character. There were good guys and bad guys. Loyalties ran strong. Not much a good right/left combo would not solve.
But, you know, this movie was fun. It all fell together. There were moments of drama. There was some humor. Muggsy, the anti-hero turned hero was a likable kid. The lines were snappy. The exposition brisk.
So, hey, watch this movie with your young kids. See the gang at the pool hall. Learn about bad guys trying to fix fights. Learn about loyalties to the family, to the gang, and to the police force. See Muggsy take on all comers, from the college-bound kid, to the police, to organized crime, to the reform school.