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

Writers:

Brendan Wood (story), Donn Mullahy (story),

Stars:

Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Leo Gorcey	...	Muggs McGinnis
Bobby Jordan	...	Danny Breslin
Huntz Hall	...	Limpy
Keye Luke	...	Clancy (as Key Luke)
Warren Hull	...	Officer Tom Brady
Charlotte Henry	...	Mary Breslin
Bobby Stone	...	Monk Martin
Donald Haines	...	Skinny
Ernest Morrison	...	Scruno (as Sunshine Sammy Morrison)
David Gorcey	...	Peewee
Martha Wentworth	...	Mrs. Brady
Jack Mulhall	...	Officer Nick Sherrill
Eddie Foster	...	Slats Morrison
Dennis Moore	...	Dorgan
Tony Carson	...	Dutch

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

racketeer | east side kids | fight | blood transfusion | frame up | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Sport

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 August 1941 (USA)

Also Known As:

Stand and Deliver

Company Credits

Production Co:

Banner Productions, Monogram Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

62 min 63 min (copyright length) 60 min (2005 DVD release)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Slats Morrison: Nice suit you're wearin', Monk.
Monk Martin: [flatly] It fits.

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Connections

Edited into Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)

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Soundtracks

"Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair"
(1854)
Written by Stephen Foster
Sung a cappella by Huntz Hall with modified lyrics

User Reviews

Somewhat Below East Side Standards.

This East Side Kids melodrama introduces Huntz Hall, one of the original Dead End boys, to this series, and quaintly casts Keye Luke, Charlie Chan's "Number One Son" as a pool hall manager (named Clancy!), but each performer plays only a small role in this story of Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) and his gang. Released before the U.S. entry into WWII (ergo the Teutonic title), the film is devoid of the customary wartime propaganda that the series featured, but it is also shorn of the snappy ad libbing that caught the Gotham flavour of most of these affairs, and we must settle for a rapidly moving but largely uninvolving account of Muggs' decision to go straight amidst the usual background of the fight game and gangsters.