The Dead End Kids(1937-1939)[8]/The Little Tough Guys(1938-1943)[15]/The East Side Kids(1940-1945)[22]/The Bowery Boys(1946-1958)[48] (Film Series)
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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsSylvia SidneyJoel McCreaHumphrey BogartThe lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
- DirectorLewis SeilerWilliam ClemensStarsHumphrey BogartThe Dead End KidsGale PageA gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienHumphrey BogartA priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsFritz FeldKathryn KaneJohn CarrollIn this musical short, a director named Nitvitch, unhappy with the lead actress in his Western, makes an unexpected discovery in the studio cafe where some big stars are being served by a bevy of beautiful singing, dancing waitresses.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsJohn GarfieldClaude RainsThe Dead End KidsA champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at a farm for delinquent youths.
- DirectorEwald André DupontLewis SeilerStarsThe Dead End KidsMargaret LindsayRonald ReaganA group of tough city kids have 'graduated' from reform school and are assigned to a "Boy's Town" type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant Mitchell), a crooked superintendent, assisted by Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields), an ex-racketeer on probation. Buck enjoys trying to straighten out the kids and joins with them and social workers Beth Avery (Margaret Lindsay) and Jim Donahue (Ronald Reagan), in getting Krispan removed from his job.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsAnn SheridanBilly HalopBernard PunslyA young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life, but 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.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensNoel M. SmithStarsBilly HalopBobby JordanHuntz HallThe Dead End Kids are sent to military school.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsRobert WilcoxHelen ParrishMarjorie MainAfter his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for survival. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for money while Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsMischa AuerMary BolandEdward Everett HortonUnder a doctor's orders, a society matron invites six ruffians to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
- DirectorHarold YoungArthur LubinStarsJackie CooperEdmund LoweWendy BarrieA clueless publisher's daughter inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys, and proceeds to run the paper to the ground.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsHarry CareyFrankie ThomasJames McCallionHoodlum Tommy Shay is sentenced to die for the murder of Police Lieutenant Carson, although Tommy was in a poker game at the time with a man calling himself "Denver" Collins who has disappeared, and perjured evidence leads to Tommy's conviction. Tommy's younger brother Danny and his gang of alley kids,"The Little Tough Guys"--- Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap---scheme to save Tommy from the electric chair. Police Lieutenant John Lewis, who arrested Tommy, believes he is innocent and goes to the District Attorney and tries so insistently to have the case reopened that he is demoted to a patrolman in the sticks. Bob Lewis, John's son, a radio bug with detective ambitions, starts out on his own to solve the crime and help his father. Searching for Collins, Bob meets Danny and the Little Tough Guys and they join forces. Acting on a tip, they go to the gambling club owned by Chick Foster and tell him the police have reopened the Carson case and suspect him of being implicated. There, they see a man named Halstead whom they believe to be the missing "Denver" Collins. And with the aid of a phony telegram and a Dictaphone planted by Bob, The Little Tough Guys begin to bring law and order to the Gotham streets.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBilly HalopHuntz HallRobert ArmstrongA 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 him 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.
- DirectorJoe MayStarsThe Dead End KidsNan GreyRosina GalliThe 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.
- DirectorFord BeebeJohn RawlinsStarsBilly HalopHuntz HallGabriel DellA gang of street kids work with the FBI in their attempt to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist group.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsBilly HalopHuntz HallGabriel DellDead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
- DirectorJoe MayStarsGladys GeorgeBarton MacLaneBilly HalopKids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
- DirectorFord BeebeJohn RawlinsStarsBilly HalopHuntz HallGabriel DellThe Dead End Kids go after a gang known as the Sea Raiders, which is sinking Allied shipping.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsDick ForanAnne GwynneBilly HalopA young street kid idolizes his brother, a gangster who was sent to death row for murder. Frank, a local cop, tries to ensure that the boy and his gang don't wind up the same way as his brother, and enrolls them in a recreational program and gets them jobs. All seems to go well until the dead gangster's brother finds out that the cop who arrested his brother for murder, which resulted in his being executed, was Frank.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsRay TaylorStarsBilly HalopGene ReynoldsLionel AtwillA group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsBilly HalopPaul KellyHelen ParrishThe 'Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsBilly HalopHuntz HallGrace McDonaldNeighborhood kids take on racketeers.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsHuntz HallBobby JordanGabriel DellTommy Banning (Bobby Jordan) and his pals,"Pig" (Huntz Hall), "Ape" (Norman Abbott) and "String" (Gabriel Dell) have jobs in a department store where store executive Frank Moulto (Frank Albertson) is romantically attracted to Sheila Banning (Evelyn Ankers), Tommy's sister. Frank is also secretly involved with a gang of truck hijackers. When a load of silk is to be hi-jacked, he tries to involve Tommy in the theft, but Tommy rejects his proposition. Frank frames Tommy with the theft of some jewelry. Tommy is jailed and his friends are fired. Tommy is befriended by Jerry (Don Terry), who also has an interest in Sheila, but Sheila remains loyal to Frank without knowing of his criminal activities. Released on bail, Tommy follows Frank to a warehouse where the gang is plotting to hi-jack one of the store's trucks. Tommy rounds up his pals and they return to the warehouse and the slug'em donnybrook is on.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsLeon AmesDennis MooreJoyce BryantAfter being falsely accused of a murder, a group of kids have to find the real killer in order to clear their name.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsBobby JordanLeo GorceyHal E. ChesterStreet kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.