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Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys – 7 complete movies

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley’s Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film. They proved to be so popular that they continued [...]

Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

The East Side Kids set out to fix up a house in the suburbs for Glimpy’s sister and her new husband. They find out the the neighbors are pretty spooky, including “The Man of a Thousand Horrors”, Bela Lugosi. This one has Ava Gardner in it. That’s always good.

Spooks Run Wild (1941)

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Spooks Run Wild  is a 1941 film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series, starring Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Bobby Jordan. Released in 1941, it was directed by Phil Rosen, in his first and only outing in the series. Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), was an [...]

Hoosier Schoolboy (1937)

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Shockey Carter has a reputation for being a bad boy, but a new teacher takes an interest in him and finds out he’s really a good boy whose father is a shell shocked, alcoholic war hero. The new teacher arrives in the middle of a strike and tries to make everyone better. Stars Mickey [...]

They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

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Boxer Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield) knocks out a rival in a postfight brawl. Thinking he committed murder, he flees to an Arizona ranch run by hard-as-nails Goldie (Ann Sheridan) and her feisty mother(May Robson) and staffed by Leo Gorcey and the Dead End Kids. Though Johnny is relentlessly dogged by Detective Monty Phelan (Claude Rains), [...]

Boys of the City (1940)

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Boys of the City is a 1940 black-and-white comedy/thriller film directed by Joseph H. Lewis. It is the second East Side Kids film and the first to star Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, and Ernest Morrison.