David Gorcey
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 06, 1921
Deathday: October 23, 1984
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Known For
Blonde Dynamite
1950-02-12
Blonde Dynamite
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-12
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Mr. Wise Guy
1942-02-20
Mr. Wise Guy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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Triple Trouble
1950-08-13
Triple Trouble
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-13
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Spooks Run Wild
1941-10-24
Spooks Run Wild
Overview: A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
1941-08-01
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Overview: The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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Crazy Over Horses
1951-09-09
Crazy Over Horses
Overview: The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-09
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Dead End Kids Go To War
1942-10-02
Dead End Kids Go To War
Overview: 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!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Lucky Losers
1950-05-14
Lucky Losers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-14
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No Holds Barred
1952-11-23
No Holds Barred
Overview: One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-23
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Spook Busters
1946-08-24
Spook Busters
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-24
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Angels' Alley
1948-03-07
Angels' Alley
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-07
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Bowery Bombshell
1946-07-20
Bowery Bombshell
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-20
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Bowery Buckaroos
1947-11-22
Bowery Buckaroos
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-22
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Loose in London
1953-05-24
Loose in London
Overview: The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-24
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Feudin' Fools
1952-09-21
Feudin' Fools
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-21
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Let's Go Navy!
1951-07-29
Let's Go Navy!
Overview: The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-29
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Ghost Chasers
1951-04-29
Ghost Chasers
Overview: A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
Genres: Comedy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-29
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In the Money
1958-02-16
In the Money
Overview: The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-16
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Clipped Wings
1953-08-14
Clipped Wings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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High Society
1955-04-17
High Society
Overview: 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 of 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-17
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Private Eyes
1953-12-06
Private Eyes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-06
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Looking for Danger
1957-10-06
Looking for Danger
Overview: Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-06
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Hot Shots
1956-12-23
Hot Shots
Overview: Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-23
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Spook Chasers
1957-06-02
Spook Chasers
Overview: Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-02
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Hold That Hypnotist
1957-02-24
Hold That Hypnotist
Overview: When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-24
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Jail Busters
1955-09-18
Jail Busters
Overview: Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-18
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In Fast Company
1946-06-22
In Fast Company
Overview: The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-22
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Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24
Sergeant Madden
Overview: A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Here Come the Marines
1952-06-29
Here Come the Marines
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-29
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Prairie Moon
1938-10-07
Prairie Moon
Overview: Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Newsboys' Home
1938-12-24
Newsboys' Home
Overview: A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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Little Tough Guy
1938-07-22
Little Tough Guy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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Hold That Line
1952-03-23
Hold That Line
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-23
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Up In Smoke
1957-12-22
Up In Smoke
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-22
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You're Not So Tough
1940-07-26
You're Not So Tough
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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That Gang of Mine
1940-09-23
That Gang of Mine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-23
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Boys of the City
1940-07-15
Boys of the City
Overview: Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-15
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Pride of the Bowery
1940-12-15
Pride of the Bowery
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-15
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Smuggler's Cove
1948-10-10
Smuggler's Cove
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-10
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Trouble Makers
1948-12-10
Trouble Makers
Overview: Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
1954-06-06
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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Little Tough Guys in Society
1938-11-01
Little Tough Guys in Society
Overview: A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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Jungle Gents
1954-09-05
Jungle Gents
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-05
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Junior G-Men of the Air
1942-06-30
Junior G-Men of the Air
Overview: A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-30
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Code of the Streets
1939-04-13
Code of the Streets
Overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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City for Conquest
1940-09-21
City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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Master Minds
1949-11-27
Master Minds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-27
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Spy Chasers
1955-07-31
Spy Chasers
Overview: Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-31
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Dig That Uranium
1955-12-25
Dig That Uranium
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Fighting Trouble
1956-09-16
Fighting Trouble
Overview: An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-16
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Crashing Las Vegas
1956-04-27
Crashing Las Vegas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-27
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News Hounds
1947-08-13
News Hounds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Angels in Disguise
1949-09-25
Angels in Disguise
Overview: Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-25
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Mr. Hex
1946-11-09
Mr. Hex
Overview: Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-09
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Fighting Fools
1949-03-17
Fighting Fools
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-17
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Juvenile Court
1938-09-10
Juvenile Court
Overview: Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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Flying Wild
1941-03-10
Flying Wild
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-10
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Off the Record
1939-01-21
Off the Record
Overview: After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Let's Get Tough
1942-05-29
Let's Get Tough
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Jinx Money
1948-06-27
Jinx Money
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-27
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Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947-05-10
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-10
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950-08-05
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Overview: Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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Paris Playboys
1954-03-07
Paris Playboys
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-07
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Wild Weed
1949-07-20
Wild Weed
Overview: A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-20
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Bowery Battalion
1951-01-24
Bowery Battalion
Overview: Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-24
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Hold That Baby!
1949-06-06
Hold That Baby!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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Jalopy
1953-02-15
Jalopy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-15
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Bowery to Bagdad
1955-01-07
Bowery to Bagdad
Overview: The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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Blues Busters
1950-10-29
Blues Busters
Overview: The Bowery Boys (Bowery Boys) open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-29
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The French Key
1946-05-18
The French Key
Overview: Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-18
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