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Plot
Hank leaves the East Side Kids to become an apprentice crook; his first job being the lookout during a bank robbery done by Mike and Butch. Hank is handed the pistol one of the crooks used to rob the bank with the events witnessed by Police Officer Regan and Danny's sister. Hiding from the police in the gang's clubhouse, Muggs throws Hank out of the gang when they discover he is involved in criminal activity. Hank is caught by the police whilst Mike and Butch remain at large.When the gang is playing baseball in the street the hit a ball into the window of Mike and Butch's hideout. Leaving his room, Butch refuses to give the gang their baseball back with Danny tackling Butch. Officer Regan arrests Butch and informs Danny he will receive a $200 reward. Danny wants to use the reward money to buy the gang new baseball outfits as a surprise but Muggs and the gang think Danny is keeping the money for himself.
Butch and Mike escape from prison to take their revenge on Danny. Also escaping is Hank who warns the gang on their plans for Danny. Danny is nearly beaten to death with only brain surgery pulling him through. Hank and the gang revenge Danny by beating and capturing Butch.
Cast
The East Side Kids:- Leo GorceyLeo GorceyLeo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo...
as Muggs McGinnis - Bobby JordanBobby JordanRobert "Bobby" Jordan was an American actor, born in Harrison, New York, most notable for being a member of the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.-Early life and career:...
as Danny Stevens - Huntz HallHuntz HallHenry Richard "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the "Dead End Kids" movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces , which gave way to the "The Bowery Boys" movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in...
as Glimpy - Gabriel DellGabriel DellGabriel Dell was an American actor and one of the members of what came to be known as the Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/The Bowery Boys.-Early life:...
as Hank Salka - Ernest Morrison as Scruno
- Stanley ClementsStanley ClementsStanley Clements was an American actor and comedian.Stanley Clements was born Stanislaw Klimowicz in Long Island, New York. Young Stan realized that he wanted a show-business career while he was in grammar school, and when he graduated from college he toured in vaudeville for two years...
as Stash - David GorceyDavid GorceyDavid Gorcey was an American actor and comedian best known as being a member of the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. He was the younger brother of Dead End Kids member Leo Gorcey.-Career:...
as Peewee - Bobby Stone as Skinny
Additional Cast:
- Maxie RosenbloomMaxie RosenbloomMax Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie was an American boxer, actor, and television personality.-Life and career:...
as Butch Brocalli - Gale StormGale StormGale Storm was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.-Early life:...
as Ruth Stevens - Roger Pryor as Joe Reagan
- Herbert RawlinsonHerbert RawlinsonHerbert Rawlinson was an English stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound films. Rawlinson died of lung cancer in 1953...
as Police Captain Bronson - Walter Woolf KingWalter Woolf KingWalter Woolf King was an American singer, performer, and film actorBorn in San Francisco, California, King started singing for a living at a young age and sang mostly in churches. He made his Broadway theatre debut in 1919, and developed a reputation as a baritone in musical comedies and other...
as Dr. Ormsby - Sam BernardSam BernardSam Bernard was a renowned stage, film and vaudeville star. He also performed comic opera and burlesque....
as Dr. Thomas - Dick Ryan as Prison Warden
- Joe KirkJoe KirkJoe Kirk was a U.S. radio, film, and television actor who was best known for playing the role of Mr...
as Mike - Marie WindsorMarie WindsorMarie Windsor . Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many film noirs and B-movies like Cat-Women of the Moon...
as a Nurse
Soundtrack
- Huntz Hall and Ernest Morrison - "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (Music by J.A. Butterfield, lyrics by George W. JohnsonGeorge W. JohnsonGeorge Washington Johnson was a singer and pioneer sound recording artist, the first African American recording star of the phonograph.-Early life:...
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Quotes
Muggs McGinnis: Where'd you just come from?Hank Salka: From the closet.
Muggs McGinnis: What are ya doin' in the closet?
Glimpy: He's got secrets.