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.Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Hal E. Chester
- Buster
- (as Hally Chester)
Dave O'Brien
- Knuckles Dolan
- (as David O'Brien)
Ernest Morrison
- Scruno
- (as Sunshine Sammy)
Stephen Chase
- Jim Harrison
- (as Alden Chase)
Jack Cheatham
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe 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.
- GoofsEarly 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Muppet Babies: Is There a Muppet in the House? (1988)
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Boys of the City was a partly amusing East Side Kids debut of former Our Gang member Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison as an adult
The same year, 1940, that former silent Our Ganger Mary Kornman made her last film appearance in Monogram's On the Spot, her series co-star from the same period, in fact one of the original members of which he was the first picked, Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, appeared in his first films since leaving Our Gang sixteen years previous of which this one marked his first appearance in an East Side Kids feature entry-from the same studio as the one I mentioned concerning Mary's final movie-as Scruno, the only black member of this particular gang. His character here displays some of the unfortunate stereotypes of his race such as his loving watermelon, wanting to go back to the plantation, mockingly getting called "boy" while being ordered by one of the gang, and getting scared quite a bit though that last characteristic does provide some funny lines and a funny scream from him. As for the rest of the picture, well, there's quite a few good scares and leading players Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordan provides some laughs as well. So on that note, I say give Boys of the City a shot of you're curious about one of the original Our Gang members as he looked and acted as an adult.
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- tavm
- Jan 26, 2015
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- Also known as
- The Ghost Creeps
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- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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