Bernard Gorcey

Bernard Gorcey

Born: January 9, 1886
Died: September 11, 1955
in Russia

Movies for Bernard Gorcey...

Dig That Uranium
Title: Dig That Uranium
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: December 25, 1955
Type: Movie
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, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.
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Jail Busters
Title: Jail Busters
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: September 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
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Spy Chasers
Title: Spy Chasers
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: July 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
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High Society
Title: High Society
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: April 17, 1955
Type: Movie
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 rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.
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Bowery to Bagdad
Title: Bowery to Bagdad
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
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Jungle Gents
Title: Jungle Gents
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: September 5, 1954
Type: Movie
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
Title: The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
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
Title: Paris Playboys
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
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
Title: Private Eyes
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: December 6, 1953
Type: Movie
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
Title: Clipped Wings
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
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 a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.
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Loose in London
Title: Loose in London
Character: Louie Dumbrowski
Released: May 24, 1953
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
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Jalopy
Title: Jalopy
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: February 15, 1953
Type: Movie
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 of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
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No Holds Barred
Title: No Holds Barred
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: November 23, 1952
Type: Movie
One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
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Feudin' Fools
Title: Feudin' Fools
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: September 21, 1952
Type: Movie
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
Title: Here Come the Marines
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: June 29, 1952
Type: Movie
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 for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
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Hold That Line
Title: Hold That Line
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky / Morris Dumbrowsky
Released: March 23, 1952
Type: Movie
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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Journey Into Light
Title: Journey Into Light
Character: Flophouse Clerk
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
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Crazy Over Horses
Title: Crazy Over Horses
Character: Louis Xavier 'Louie' Dumbrowsky
Released: September 9, 1951
Type: Movie
The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
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Let's Go Navy!
Title: Let's Go Navy!
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: July 29, 1951
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
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Pickup
Title: Pickup
Character: Peddler with Dog
Released: July 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Jan Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher stationed at a forsaken spot in the desert, within driving distance of the nearest town. A widower, he has saved his money and goes to town to buy a dog, meets Betty, a flashy blonde who gains his confidence and marries him to acquire his $7,000 "fortune."
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Ghost Chasers
Title: Ghost Chasers
Character: Louie
Released: April 29, 1951
Type: Movie
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
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Bowery Battalion
Title: Bowery Battalion
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: January 24, 1951
Type: Movie
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
Title: Blues Busters
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: October 29, 1950
Type: Movie
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
Title: Triple Trouble
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: August 13, 1950
Type: Movie
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
Title: Lucky Losers
Character: Louie
Released: May 14, 1950
Type: Movie
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 that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
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Blonde Dynamite
Title: Blonde Dynamite
Character: Louie Dumbrowski
Released: February 12, 1950
Type: Movie
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
Title: Master Minds
Character: Louie
Released: November 27, 1949
Type: Movie
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-switching experiment with a monster.
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Angels in Disguise
Title: Angels in Disguise
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: September 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
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Hold That Baby!
Title: Hold That Baby!
Character: Louie
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
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 boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
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The Set-Up
Title: The Set-Up
Character: Tobacco Man (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Fighting Fools
Title: Fighting Fools
Character: Louie
Released: March 17, 1949
Type: Movie
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 him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
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Trouble Makers
Title: Trouble Makers
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
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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No Minor Vices
Title: No Minor Vices
Character: Mr. Zitzfleisch (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
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Jinx Money
Title: Jinx Money
Character: Louie
Released: June 27, 1948
Type: Movie
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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Bowery Buckaroos
Title: Bowery Buckaroos
Character: Louie
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
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 Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
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News Hounds
Title: News Hounds
Character: Louie Dumbrowski
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
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
Title: Hard Boiled Mahoney
Character: Louie
Released: May 10, 1947
Type: Movie
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 him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
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Mr. Hex
Title: Mr. Hex
Character: Louie
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
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Spook Busters
Title: Spook Busters
Character: Louis Xavier 'Louie' Dumbrowski
Released: August 24, 1946
Type: Movie
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 tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.
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Bowery Bombshell
Title: Bowery Bombshell
Character: Louie Dumbrowsky
Released: July 20, 1946
Type: Movie
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 Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
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In Fast Company
Title: In Fast Company
Character: Louie
Released: June 22, 1946
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
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The French Key
Title: The French Key
Character: Little Man (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
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Live Wires
Title: Live Wires
Character: Jack Kane
Released: January 12, 1946
Type: Movie
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 out that all is not quite kosher at his old construction company, and that his sister may be in danger.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Title: Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Character: Meyer
Released: July 15, 1945
Type: Movie
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 falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
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Docks of New York
Title: Docks of New York
Character: Kessel (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.
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Bowery Champs
Title: Bowery Champs
Character: Mr. Johnson (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1944
Type: Movie
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
Title: Block Busters
Character: Lippman
Released: July 22, 1944
Type: Movie
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
Title: Follow the Leader
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
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 large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.
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The Unknown Guest
Title: The Unknown Guest
Character: Popcorn Vendor at Carnival (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
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Clancy Street Boys
Title: Clancy Street Boys
Character: Liquor Store Owner (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1943
Type: Movie
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' deception and threatens to expose it.
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Bowery at Midnight
Title: Bowery at Midnight
Character: Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Character: Sam Pepper
Released: June 14, 1941
Type: Movie
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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So Ends Our Night
Title: So Ends Our Night
Character: Carnival Barker (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Mr. Mann
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Words & Music
Title: Words & Music
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Singer Ruth Eton is looking for some new songs to use in her act. Don Hopkins is a songwriter who wants to break into the business, but knows it is difficult to get music publishers to consider new talent. Don sees Ruth having dinner at a night club and asks for her help.
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Abie's Irish Rose
Title: Abie's Irish Rose
Character: Isaac Cohen
Released: April 19, 1928
Type: Movie
When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families.