Huntz Hall

Huntz Hall

Born: August 15, 1919
Died: January 30, 1999
in New York City, New York, USA
Popular motion picture actor of the 1930s to 1990s. Fondly remembered for his role of 'Sach' in a number of East Side Kids and Bowery Boys films.

Movies for Huntz Hall...

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
Title: Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
Character: Farmer
Released: October 21, 1992
Type: Movie
A devil-worshiping woman sends out her four beautiful nieces to lure men back to her place so they can be killed, ground up and sold as meat pies.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Title: Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character: Glimpy (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Cyclone
Title: Cyclone
Character: Long John
Released: June 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns. Rick meets his fate and it is up to his girlfriend Teri to keep the Cyclone from falling into the wrong hands. Teri can trust no one but herself.
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The Ratings Game
Title: The Ratings Game
Character: Benny Bentson
Released: December 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.
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The Escape Artist
Title: The Escape Artist
Character: Turnkey
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.
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Gas Pump Girls
Title: Gas Pump Girls
Character: Uncle Joe
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.
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Title: CHiPs
Character: Driver
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: TV
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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Valentino
Title: Valentino
Character: Jesse Lasky
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Moving Man
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Title: Good Heavens
Released: February 29, 1976
Type: TV
Good Heavens was an ABC comedy anthology series produced by Columbia Pictures Television that aired between February 29 to June 26, 1976. It ranked #17 in the Nielsen ratings during the 1975-76 television season. The main character was Mr. Angel, who was an Emissary of Heaven that came down to Earth to grant wishes to those who had performed a good deed. Episodes featured actors such as Don Ameche, Susan Dey, Sandy Duncan, Pat Harrington Jr., Florence Henderson, Alex Karras, Penny Marshall, Hugh O'Brian, Loretta Swit, Brenda Vaccaro, and Fred Willard.
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Title: Matt Helm
Character: Willy
Released: September 20, 1975
Type: TV
Matt Helm is an American mystery television series which aired on the ABC Network during the 1975-1976 season. The title character was played by Anthony Franciosa.
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Title: The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Character: Deputy Roy
Released: March 7, 1975
Type: Movie
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
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The Sky's the Limit
Title: The Sky's the Limit
Character: Hitchhiker
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
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Herbie Rides Again
Title: Herbie Rides Again
Character: Judge
Released: February 12, 1974
Type: Movie
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
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Title: The Chicago Teddy Bears
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
The Chicago Teddy Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The series was part of the network's 1971 fall lineup, premiering on September 17, 1971.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Gilbert
Released: April 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
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The Phynx
Title: The Phynx
Character: Huntz Hall
Released: March 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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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Gentle Giant
Title: Gentle Giant
Character: Dink Smith
Released: October 25, 1967
Type: Movie
The Story of a boy and his bear.
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Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Title: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Character: Huntz
Released: December 29, 1966
Type: Movie
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 West, Connie Smith and Faron Young, the film features great tunes such as "Born to Lose," "Abilene" and "Young Love." Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey (of Bowery Boys fame) portray stagehands.
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In the Money
Title: In the Money
Character: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Released: February 16, 1958
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
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Up In Smoke
Title: Up In Smoke
Character: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Released: December 22, 1957
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
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Looking for Danger
Title: Looking for Danger
Character: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Released: October 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
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Spook Chasers
Title: Spook Chasers
Character: Horace Debussy 'Satch' Jones
Released: June 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
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Hold That Hypnotist
Title: Hold That Hypnotist
Character: Sach Jones
Released: February 24, 1957
Type: Movie
When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.
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Hot Shots
Title: Hot Shots
Character: Sach Jones
Released: December 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
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Fighting Trouble
Title: Fighting Trouble
Character: Sach Jones
Released: September 16, 1956
Type: Movie
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
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Crashing Las Vegas
Title: Crashing Las Vegas
Character: Horace Debussy 'Satch' Jones
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
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 out his "system" for beating the odds.
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Dig That Uranium
Title: Dig That Uranium
Character: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: 'Sach' Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: Sach Jones / Maurice Gaston Le Beau
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: Sach Jones
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: Horace Debussey "Sach" Jones
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: Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones/Sir Horace
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: Horace Debussy 'Satch' Jones
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones Jr.
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones
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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Crazy Over Horses
Title: Crazy Over Horses
Character: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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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Ghost Chasers
Title: Ghost Chasers
Character: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: Horace DeBussy 'Sach' Jones, aka The Bowery Thrush
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: Sach Jones
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: Sach
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: Sach Jones
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: Sach Jones
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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Fighting Fools
Title: Fighting Fools
Character: Sach
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: Sach, also called 'Chopper' McGee
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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Smuggler's Cove
Title: Smuggler's Cove
Character: Sach Jones
Released: October 10, 1948
Type: Movie
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. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.
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Jinx Money
Title: Jinx Money
Character: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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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Angels' Alley
Title: Angels' Alley
Character: Horace Debussy 'Satch' Jones
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
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
Title: Bowery Buckaroos
Character: Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Sach Sullivan
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: Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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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Live Wires
Title: Live Wires
Character: 'Sach' Jones
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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A Walk in the Sun
Title: A Walk in the Sun
Character: Pvt. Carraway
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
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Come Out Fighting
Title: Come Out Fighting
Character: Glimpy
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Title: Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Character: Glimpy
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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Wonder Man
Title: Wonder Man
Character: Mike, a Sailor
Released: June 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
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Bring on the Girls
Title: Bring on the Girls
Character: Sailor
Released: March 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
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Docks of New York
Title: Docks of New York
Character: Glimpy
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: Glimpy McClusky
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: Glimpy
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
Character: Glimpy Freedhoff
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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Million Dollar Kid
Title: Million Dollar Kid
Character: Glimpy McClosky
Released: February 28, 1944
Type: Movie
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
Title: Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Character: Glimpy Freedhoff
Released: October 29, 1943
Type: Movie
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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Ghosts on the Loose
Title: Ghosts on the Loose
Character: Glimpy
Released: July 30, 1943
Type: Movie
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
Title: Clancy Street Boys
Character: Glimpy Freedhoff
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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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Pig
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Glimpy McGleavey
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
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 his kidnapping.
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Don't Kill Your Friends
Title: Don't Kill Your Friends
Character: Ensign Dilbert
Released: January 24, 1943
Type: Movie
By setting a bad example, pilot Dilbert shows the necessary safety rules for fighter pilots, and the ones training them.
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Mug Town
Title: Mug Town
Character: Pig
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
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Junior Army
Title: Junior Army
Character: Bushy Thomas
Released: November 26, 1942
Type: Movie
An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Title: 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Character: Glimpy
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
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, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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Dead End Kids Go To War
Title: Dead End Kids Go To War
Character: "Bolts" Larsen
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!
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Smart Alecks
Title: Smart Alecks
Character: Glimpy
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
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 looking for him.
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Junior G-Men of the Air
Title: Junior G-Men of the Air
Character: Bolts Larson
Released: June 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
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Private Buckaroo
Title: Private Buckaroo
Character: Cpl. Anemic
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and songs.
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Tough as They Come
Title: Tough as They Come
Character: Pig aka Albert
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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Let's Get Tough
Title: Let's Get Tough
Character: Glimpy
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
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 him dead.
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Mr. Wise Guy
Title: Mr. Wise Guy
Character: Glimpy Stone
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
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 events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.
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Zis Boom Bah
Title: Zis Boom Bah
Character: Skeets Skillhorn
Released: December 7, 1941
Type: Movie
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
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Spooks Run Wild
Title: Spooks Run Wild
Character: Glimpy
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Sea Raiders
Title: Sea Raiders
Character: Toby Nelson
Released: October 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Mob Town
Title: Mob Town
Character: Pig
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
Title: Bowery Blitzkrieg
Character: Limpy
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
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Hit the Road
Title: Hit the Road
Character: Pig Grogan
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
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Give Us Wings
Title: Give Us Wings
Character: Pig
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: Gyp
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Title: Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Character: Gyp
Released: October 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Albert 'Pig'
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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The Return of Doctor X
Title: The Return of Doctor X
Character: Pinky
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Cadet Johnny Cabot
Released: November 18, 1939
Type: Movie
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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Call a Messenger
Title: Call a Messenger
Character: 'Pig'
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Huntz
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
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 he didn't commit.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Bingo
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
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, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Dippy
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Swingtime in the Movies
Title: Swingtime in the Movies
Character: Crime School Kid (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
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Angels with Dirty Faces
Title: Angels with Dirty Faces
Character: Crab
Released: November 26, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Little Tough Guy
Title: Little Tough Guy
Character: 'Pig'
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
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Crime School
Title: Crime School
Character: Richard 'Goofy' Slade
Released: May 10, 1938
Type: Movie
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. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Dippy
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
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 paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Title: Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Character: Sheriff Martin
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.