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Clancy Street Boys
USA 1943
produced by
Jack Dietz, Sam Katzman, Barney A. Sarecky (associate) for Monogram (Banner Productions)
directed by William Beaudine
starring the East Side Kids (= Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Sammy Morrison (= Ernest Morrison), Benny Bartlett, Dick Chandlee, Eddie Mills), Noah Beery, Amelita Ward, Rick Vallin, William 'Billy' Benedict, J.Farrell MacDonald, Jan Rubini, Martha Wentworth, George DeNormand, Symona Boniface, Bernard Gorcey, Gino Corrado, Artie Ortego
written by Harvey Gates, musical director: Edward J.Kay
East Side Kids, formerly Dead End Kids, later Bowery Boys
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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For years now, Muggs' (Leo Gorcey) rich Texas uncle Pete (Noah Beery)
has sent Muggs and his six siblings $50 per year. Thing is though, Muggs
doesn't have 6 siblings, actually he has none, and now uncle Pete comes
visit - so Muggs makes his gang (Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Sammy
'Sunshine' Morrison, Benny Bartlett, Dick Chandlee, Eddie Mills) dress up
as his siblings, even if one of them (Sammy 'Sunshine' Morrison) is black
and one (Huntz Hall) has to pretend to be a girl. The whole charade goes
well for a while, but then gangster Mooney (Rick Vallin) learns about the
whole thing, tells uncle Pete and his daughter Judy (Amelita Ward) the
truth, then kidnaps them. But Muggs has somehow grown wise to this, and
now assembles his gang and all the other street gang to free uncle Pete
and Judy. Of course everything ends happily. Not really much
of a movie here, as the story is disappointingly predictable, the
slapstick is at best so-so and the direction is nothing beyond basic - but
at least all the central actors (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Noah Beery, Rick
Vallin, J.Farrell MacDonald) are competent and likeable enough to somehow
carry this.
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