Impoverished boys get sent to reform school while an adult older brother to one of them gets put on death row - all innocent of their charges.Impoverished boys get sent to reform school while an adult older brother to one of them gets put on death row - all innocent of their charges.Impoverished boys get sent to reform school while an adult older brother to one of them gets put on death row - all innocent of their charges.
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Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
- Luke Manning
- (as Guinn Williams)
Stanley Blystone
- Policeman Burns
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGabriel Dell makes his first appearance in the series that his old DeadEnd Gang had started without him. Here he is cast as an adversary named 'Rice Pudding Charlie.' So is Bobby Stone, cast here as Dell's partner in crime, 'Chalky Jones.'
- GoofsAlthough African-American actor Ernest Morrison has plenty of screen time as Scruno (his recurring role in the East Side Kids film series), his name appears nowhere in the credits.
- Quotes
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis: Hey, whadya think of the Dodgers dropping the series?
- ConnectionsFollowed by Let's Get Tough! (1942)
Featured review
Monogram's piggy bank busted wide open for good cast
Monogram's Sam Katzman busted the studio piggy bank and came up with an unusually good and familiar cast of character players for the East Side Kids in Mr. Wise Guy. The story centers around the efforts of the lads to save Bobby Jordan's brother Douglas Fowley from the chair. That is if they can bust out of the reform school they're in.
Turns out the same guy Guinn Williams is responsible for the fix both brothers are in. The kids unwittingly help henchmen Billy Gilbert and Warren Hymer with Williams crashing out of Blackwell's Island and then are left with the stolen truck that was used. Then Williams and the gang stickup a drugstore and kill the clerk and Williams commandeers a car driven by Fowley for the getaway.
Billy Gilbert dusted off his eternally flustered character so familiar in major films like On The Avenue and His Girl Friday as the incredibly dopey henchman. Williams must keep him around for laughs because he really isn't much good for anything else. Williams gives him a chore to get the money for his getaway with a good sweepstakes ticket, but his moll Ann Doran decides to cash in herself with that one. Some days you can't trust anyone even if they're too stupid to think of a doublecross themselves.
Mr. Wise Guy is the usual East Side Kids Monogram programmer on the cheap side. But the character players especially Gilbert make this one a bit above average.
Turns out the same guy Guinn Williams is responsible for the fix both brothers are in. The kids unwittingly help henchmen Billy Gilbert and Warren Hymer with Williams crashing out of Blackwell's Island and then are left with the stolen truck that was used. Then Williams and the gang stickup a drugstore and kill the clerk and Williams commandeers a car driven by Fowley for the getaway.
Billy Gilbert dusted off his eternally flustered character so familiar in major films like On The Avenue and His Girl Friday as the incredibly dopey henchman. Williams must keep him around for laughs because he really isn't much good for anything else. Williams gives him a chore to get the money for his getaway with a good sweepstakes ticket, but his moll Ann Doran decides to cash in herself with that one. Some days you can't trust anyone even if they're too stupid to think of a doublecross themselves.
Mr. Wise Guy is the usual East Side Kids Monogram programmer on the cheap side. But the character players especially Gilbert make this one a bit above average.
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- bkoganbing
- Dec 3, 2012
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- Os Anjos e os Gangsters
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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