Muggs' rich Uncle Pete comes to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits members of the gang to pose as his family.Muggs' rich Uncle Pete comes to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits members of the gang to pose as his family.Muggs' rich Uncle Pete comes to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits members of the gang to pose as his family.
Amelita Ward
- Judy Monahan
- (as Lita Ward)
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Butch - Cherry Street Leader
- (as Billy Benedict)
J. Farrell MacDonald
- Police Sgt. Hanagan
- (as J. Farrell McDonald)
Ernest Morrison
- Scruno
- (as Sammy Morrison)
Symona Boniface
- Dress Saleslady
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- Fresh Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Max Davidson
- Shopkeeper with Cigar
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaShot in six days.
- GoofsLeo Gorcey's character name is spelled "Mugs" in the credits, but as "Muggs" in the film, when it is seen printed in a letter.
- Quotes
Butch - Cherry Street Leader: It's okay, Flanagan, there ain't gonna be no rough stuff - not until we find Muggs anyway.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are depicted as clean clothes drying on an clothesline.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
- SoundtracksHappy Birthday to You
(1893) (uncredited)
Written by Mildred J. Hill and Patty S. Hill
Partially sung a cappella by the gang at Muggs' birthday party
Featured review
Clancy Street Boys as a film is notable for two reasons. First Noah Beery, Sr., a villain in countless westerns is playing a good guy for a change. Secondly in this East Side Kids outing we get a chance to see Huntz Hall in drag.
What should be good news for Leo Gorcey's mother has Martha Wentworth depressed and Gorcey wants to know why. They're getting a visit from his father's old friend Uncle Pete Monahan as played by Beery and his daughter Amelita Ward. While the father settled on the East Side of New York, Beery went to Texas and got fame and fortune and always sends a little money the McGinniss family way for special occasions. And Wentworth has gilded the lily. She's not just had one special occasion, she's had seven more and now how to account for them.
That's easy as Gorcey gets others of his gang to fill in as kids. And for the one girl we just get Huntz Hall into drag. Sounds easy enough.
Things go wrong when the local crook Rick Vallin makes Beery and Ward out as rubes for an easy mark. That's where the street smart East Side Kids go into action.
Clancy Street Boys is done with the usual posh production values that so characterized a Monogram Studio product. The plot, well why didn't Gorcey get one of the neighborhood girls for the masquerade. Answer is that would have killed the gag of Hall in drag. And also they wouldn't need to explain Sammy Morrison as an adopted McGinniss or as Beery puts it, 'a maverick from another herd'.
Dopey, but with a certain charm as the East Side Kids save Beery and Ward from what could be a last roundup.
What should be good news for Leo Gorcey's mother has Martha Wentworth depressed and Gorcey wants to know why. They're getting a visit from his father's old friend Uncle Pete Monahan as played by Beery and his daughter Amelita Ward. While the father settled on the East Side of New York, Beery went to Texas and got fame and fortune and always sends a little money the McGinniss family way for special occasions. And Wentworth has gilded the lily. She's not just had one special occasion, she's had seven more and now how to account for them.
That's easy as Gorcey gets others of his gang to fill in as kids. And for the one girl we just get Huntz Hall into drag. Sounds easy enough.
Things go wrong when the local crook Rick Vallin makes Beery and Ward out as rubes for an easy mark. That's where the street smart East Side Kids go into action.
Clancy Street Boys is done with the usual posh production values that so characterized a Monogram Studio product. The plot, well why didn't Gorcey get one of the neighborhood girls for the masquerade. Answer is that would have killed the gag of Hall in drag. And also they wouldn't need to explain Sammy Morrison as an adopted McGinniss or as Beery puts it, 'a maverick from another herd'.
Dopey, but with a certain charm as the East Side Kids save Beery and Ward from what could be a last roundup.
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- Grand Street Boys
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- $85,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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