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
This entertaining light feature offers plenty of good-natured mischief and banter from Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, and the rest of the 'East Side Kids'. The story puts together some elements that were often recycled in the various features of the series, and it is used to set up some confrontations that combine amusement and action. This feature came from the middle of the series, when the interaction of the characters plus a few familiar plot ideas had come together well enough to carry a movie like this without a lot of extra help.
The story setup has the gang getting wrongly blamed for a theft and being sent to reform school, while the older brother of Danny (Jordan) is also arrested for a more serious crime. There are also a number of other scenes, especially early in the movie, that use their humorous confrontations with adults to establish the boys as restless but misunderstood.
The familiar ad-libbing and horseplay from Gorcey and the other regulars in the series works particularly well here, and the script almost seems to have been written so as to provide as many opportunities for it as possible. Billy Gilbert also pitches in with his comic talents, as a befuddled crook, and Guinn Williams is a believable if rather stoic heavy. Overall, it's not really anything new, but it's a familiar combination that provides solid entertainment for an hour or so.
The story setup has the gang getting wrongly blamed for a theft and being sent to reform school, while the older brother of Danny (Jordan) is also arrested for a more serious crime. There are also a number of other scenes, especially early in the movie, that use their humorous confrontations with adults to establish the boys as restless but misunderstood.
The familiar ad-libbing and horseplay from Gorcey and the other regulars in the series works particularly well here, and the script almost seems to have been written so as to provide as many opportunities for it as possible. Billy Gilbert also pitches in with his comic talents, as a befuddled crook, and Guinn Williams is a believable if rather stoic heavy. Overall, it's not really anything new, but it's a familiar combination that provides solid entertainment for an hour or so.
- Snow Leopard
- Feb 28, 2006
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- Also known as
- Os Anjos e os Gangsters
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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