Boys of the City

1940
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1h 8min

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Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordan in Boys of the City (1940)

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaStreet kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

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Bobby Jordan

Danny Dolan

Leo Gorcey

Muggs McGinnis

Hal E. Chester

Buster
(as Hally Chester)

Frankie Burke

Skinny

Vince Barnett

Simp

Inna Gest

Louise Mason

Dave O'Brien

Knuckles Dolan
(as David O'Brien)

Ernest Morrison

Scruno
(as Sunshine Sammy)

Minerva Urecal

Agnes

Dennis Moore

Giles

Donald Haines

Peewee

David Gorcey

Pete

Eugene Francis

Algy Wilkes

Forrest Taylor

Judge Malcolm Parker

Stephen Chase

Jim Harrison
(as Alden Chase)

Jerry Mandy

Cook

George Humbert

Tony

Jack Cheatham

Policeman
(sin acreditar)

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The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Pifias
Early in the film when the boys are driving at night in a station wagon up the mountains to a lodge, they turn a corner on a dirt road in the forest. Speeding close behind them is the judge's car which also turns the same corner, overtaking them and forcing them off the road. The judge's car continues on about 30 yards and is seen going around the same corner both cars had already passed. When the camera returns to the boy's station wagon, they come back onto the road and, even though it is supposedly the same road, this time there is no corner, the road is straight and trees are only on one side of the road.

Citas
Algy: Where's Knuckles? Isn't he is gonna to eat?
Danny: He's takin' a bath.
Muggs: That kid's gonna get sick from washin' himself so much.

Conexiones
Featured in Los Pequeñecos: Is There a Muppet in the House? (1988)

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Formative East Sides Kids feature

The pieces weren't quite all there yet (paging Huntz Hall!), but this erratic poverty row feature set the parameters for the long running Bowery Boys series. Additionally, the film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who did his best to add interesting camera angles and spooky lighting to this low budget affair. Unfortunately, TCM's print is in very rough condition and a lot of Lewis' work has been washed out by decades of mishandling. Nonetheless, this is well worth a look for fans of the noir director as well as those who enjoy the teenage antics of the East Side Kids.

If there's one regrettable element in Boys of the City, it's the appalling racism of screenwriter William Lively's script. One of the most commendable things about the later films in this series is the (generally) colour blind approach to Sammy Morrison's character, but in this effort, poor Sammy was burdened with jokes about spooks, watermelon, the ol' plantation, and his beloved Mammy. Still and all, he does a good job with the material and remains (after Gorcey and Hall) the most memorable of the series' characters.