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Leo Gorcey

Leo Gorcey

Leo Gorcey's parents were actor Bernard Gorcey (born 1888) who stood 4' 10", and Josephine Condon (born 1901), who stood 4' 11" and weighed 95 pounds; they worked in vaudeville in New York. In 1915, 14-year-old Josephine gave birth to Fred. In 1917, Leo was born, a large baby at 12 lb. 3 oz.; as an adult he would be 5' 6". In 1921 his brother David Gorcey was born. In 1935, Leo and David appeared in the stage play "Dead End." In 1937, this was made into a movie, and Leo became one of the busiest actors for the next 20 years -- from 1937-1939 he starred in seven Dead End Kids movies, from 1940-1945 in 21 East Side Kids films, from 1946-1956 in 41 Bowery Boys movies.

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The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter (2020)

Thirty years of film clips, interviews, outtakes, stills and more pay tribute to the lives and work of the comedy legends known as the Bowery Boys. ...

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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)

Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ace Zucco has a new partner, reporter Fay Kendall, who is more than a match for the rowdy photographer. Dail ...

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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods. ...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50 ...

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The Phynx (1970)

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA. ...

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Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1966)

In this musical gem, big-hearted Jubal Bristol (Arnold Stang) takes it upon himself to mount a country and western benefit concert after the opera company that his wife (Pamela Hayes) booked suddenly backs out. Along with country icons Minnie Pearl, Dottie ...

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself. ...

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Crashing Las Vegas (1956)

An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find ...

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Dig That Uranium (1955)

The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, the ...

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Jail Busters (1955)

Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story. ...

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Spy Chasers (1955)

Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman). ...

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High Society (1955)

Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the right ...

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Bowery to Bagdad (1955)

The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers. ...

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Jungle Gents (1954)

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them. ...

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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)

Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire ...

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Paris Playboys (1954)

Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel. ...

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Private Eyes (1953)

After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers. ...

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Clipped Wings (1953)

Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find ...

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Loose in London (1953)

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title. ...

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Jalopy (1953)

Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns ...

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No Holds Barred (1952)

One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler. ...

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Feudin' Fools (1952)

Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers. ...

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Here Come the Marines (1952)

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left fo ...

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Hold That Line (1952)

The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game. ...

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Crazy Over Horses (1951)

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers ...

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Let's Go Navy! (1951)

The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors. ...

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Ghost Chasers (1951)

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor. ...

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Bowery Battalion (1951)

Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army. ...

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Blues Busters (1950)

The Bowery Boys (Bowery Boys) open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice. ...

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Triple Trouble (1950)

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison. ...

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Lucky Losers (1950)

Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion ...

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Blonde Dynamite (1950)

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients. ...

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Master Minds (1949)

When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switchi ...

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Angels in Disguise (1949)

Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work. ...

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Hold That Baby! (1949)

While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The ...

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Fighting Fools (1949)

The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train hi ...

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Trouble Makers (1948)

Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel. ...

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Smuggler's Cove (1948)

Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip ...

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Jinx Money (1948)

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers. ...

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So This Is New York (1948)

A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple. ...

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Angels' Alley (1948)

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring. ...

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Bowery Buckaroos (1947)

The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klo ...

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News Hounds (1947)

Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring. ...

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Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces ...

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Mr. Hex (1946)

Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter. ...

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Spook Busters (1946)

The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are torm ...

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Bowery Bombshell (1946)

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gor ...

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In Fast Company (1946)

The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers. ...

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Live Wires (1946)

Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages to get a job with the District Attorney serving warrants, as does Sach. Through his job, Slip finds o ...

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Come Out Fighting (1945)

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son. ...

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Midnight Manhunt (1945)

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum. ...

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Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945)

After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame ...

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Docks of New York (1945)

The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace. ...

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Bowery Champs (1944)

Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate. ...

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Block Busters (1944)

Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return. ...

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Follow the Leader (1944)

Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a la ...

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Million Dollar Kid (1944)

The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one of the agressors. ...

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Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)

Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help. ...

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Destroyer (1943)

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Ch ...

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Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men. ...

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Clancy Street Boys (1943)

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' decepti ...

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Kid Dynamite (1943)

The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for hi ...

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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, ...

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Smart Alecks (1942)

Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the money with them. Complications ensue when the crook that Danny helped capture escapes from jail and comes ...

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Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence? ...

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Let's Get Tough (1942)

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find h ...

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Sunday Punch (1942)

Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr. ...

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Mr. Wise Guy (1942)

The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of e ...

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Born to Sing (1942)

A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs. ...

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Spooks Run Wild (1941)

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house. ...

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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters. ...

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Down in San Diego (1941)

A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets. ...

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Out of the Fog (1941)

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police. ...

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Angels with Broken Wings (1941)

Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold ...

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Flying Wild (1941)

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents. ...

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Pride of the Bowery (1940)

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble. ...

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Gallant Sons (1940)

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer. ...

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Hullabaloo (1940)

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic. ...

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That Gang of Mine (1940)

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the ...

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Boys of the City (1940)

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house. ...

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Invisible Stripes (1939)

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison. ...

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Private Detective (1939)

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire. ...

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On Dress Parade (1939)

The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school. ...

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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder h ...

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Hell's Kitchen (1939)

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, a ...

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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk. ...

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Swingtime in the Movies (1938)

In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break. ...

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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood. ...

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Crime School (1938)

In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards ...

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The Beloved Brat (1938)

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her nee ...

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Mannequin (1938)

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind. ...

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Headin' East (1937)

A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments. ...

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Portia on Trial (1937)

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's f ...

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Dead End (1937)

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses pat ...

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