Leo Gorcey

Leo Gorcey

Born: June 3, 1917
Died: June 2, 1969
in New York City, New York, USA
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.

In 1939, Leo married 17-year-old dancer Kay Marvis, who appeared in four of his movies. They divorced in 1944 after five years of marriage; she went on to marry Groucho Marx. In 1945, Leo married Evalene Bankston; they divorced in 1948. Leo was to have paid her $50,000 in a divorce settlement; however, when two detectives she hired broke into his home, he retaliated by firing his gun at them. They sued, and Leo countersued for illegal entry and won $35,000 back. In 1949, Leo married Amelita Ward, whom he met while filming Smugglers' Cove (1948). Their marriage produced Leo Gorcey Jr. in 1949, and a baby girl they named Jan (after Leo's producer and manager, Jan Grippo) in 1951. They divorced in 1956. That year Leo married his young nanny, Brandy, who was taking care of his two kids. They had a baby girl, Brandy Jo, in 1958. The couple divorced in 1962. Leo went to the altar one last time in February, 1968, marrying Mary Gannon. He stayed married to her until his death from liver failure on June 2, 1969, in Oakland, California.

Movies for Leo Gorcey...

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Title: Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Character: Muggs McGinnis (archive footage)
Released: March 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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. Daily Dispatch editor Mac sends them on assignment accompanying his niece Kate as she tries to find Rick Banning, her fiancée, an archeologist who disappeared while working in Egypt. A letter from Rick directs them to Lord Darby in England. The trail takes them from London to Scotland and finally to Egypt where they discover more than they bargained for as they search for the lost city of Lemuria.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Title: Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character: Muggs (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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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
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
Title: The Phynx
Character: Leo Gorcey
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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Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Title: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Character: Leo
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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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Character: First Cab Driver
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
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
Title: Crashing Las Vegas
Character: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney
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: Terrence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney
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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So This Is New York
Title: So This Is New York
Character: Sid Mercer
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
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
Title: Angels' Alley
Character: Terence 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Terence J. Montgomery 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Slip Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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: Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney
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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Come Out Fighting
Title: Come Out Fighting
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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Midnight Manhunt
Title: Midnight Manhunt
Character: Clutch Tracy
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Title: Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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: Muggs McGinnis
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: Muggs McGinnis
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: Muggs McGinnis
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: Muggs McGinnis
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: Muggs McGinnis
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: Muggs McGinnis
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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Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: Seaman Sarecky
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
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 Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
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Ghosts on the Loose
Title: Ghosts on the Loose
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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: Muggs McGinnis
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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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Title: 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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Smart Alecks
Title: Smart Alecks
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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Maisie Gets Her Man
Title: Maisie Gets Her Man
Character: Cecil
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
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
Title: Let's Get Tough
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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Sunday Punch
Title: Sunday Punch
Character: 'Biff'
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
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.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
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Mr. Wise Guy
Title: Mr. Wise Guy
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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Born to Sing
Title: Born to Sing
Character: 'Snap' Collins
Released: February 18, 1942
Type: Movie
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
Title: Spooks Run Wild
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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Down in San Diego
Title: Down in San Diego
Character: 'Snap' Collins
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
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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Bowery Blitzkrieg
Title: Bowery Blitzkrieg
Character: Muggs McGinnis
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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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Character: Eddie
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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Angels with Broken Wings
Title: Angels with Broken Wings
Character: Punchy Dorsey
Released: May 27, 1941
Type: Movie
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-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
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Flying Wild
Title: Flying Wild
Character: Muggs McGinnis
Released: March 10, 1941
Type: Movie
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
Title: Pride of the Bowery
Character: Muggs Maloney
Released: December 15, 1940
Type: Movie
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
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Doc Reardon
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
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
Title: Hullabaloo
Character: Apartment House Bellhop
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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That Gang of Mine
Title: That Gang of Mine
Character: Muggs Maloney
Released: September 23, 1940
Type: Movie
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 race's entry fees.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Muggs McGinnis
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Jimmy
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Private Detective
Title: Private Detective
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1939
Type: Movie
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
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Slip Duncan
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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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Leo Finnegan
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: Gyp Haller
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: Spit
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: Bim
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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Crime School
Title: Crime School
Character: Charles 'Spike' Hawkins
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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The Beloved Brat
Title: The Beloved Brat
Character: Spike Matz
Released: April 30, 1938
Type: Movie
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 needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Clifford Cassidy
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
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
Title: Headin' East
Character: Boy Boxer in Gym (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1937
Type: Movie
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
Title: Portia on Trial
Character: Joe Gannow
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
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 father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Spit
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.