Pat O'Day
Search results
The East Side Kids were characters in a series of 22 films released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945. [ 1 ] The series was a low-budget imitation of the Dead End Kids, a successful film franchise of the late 1930s.
- Follow the Leader. December 6, 1930. Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
- East Side Kids. February 10, 1940. After living all his chilhood in the street, a young boy notices rapidly that crime doesn't pay and that´s why he decides to become a policeman.
- Boys of the City. July 15, 1940. Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
- That Gang of Mine. September 23, 1940. 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 East Side Kids, aka The Dead Ends, Little Tough Guys, and The Bowery Boys were a gang of tough-talking teen actors that appeared together in over 90 film...
Sort by List order. 1. East Side Kids. 1940 1h 2m Approved. 5.5 (300) Rate. After being falsely accused of a murder, a group of kids have to find the real killer in order to clear their name. Director Robert F. Hill Stars Leon Ames Dennis Moore Joyce Bryant. 2.
The East Side Kids. This series of films by Monogram featured the boys first in crime melodramas with comedic overtones then in comedies with some serious (usually criminal) overtones. The plots almost always cast the Boys as lower class street urchins in conflict with the criminal element that surrounded them.
The East Side Kids uncover the body of a murder victim, but must protect the innocent girl accused of the crime. Director Wallace Fox Stars Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall Bobby Jordan 8.
The gang's third incarnation (before ending up as The Bowery Boys) was as the East Side Kids -- and the first film in that series was appropriately titled East Side Kids (1940). But it was a very different movie from all of the East Side Kid flicks that would follow.
