Dead End Kids / East Side Kids / Bowery Boys

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

I spent many an hour on Sundays growing up watching the old Dead End Kids / East Side Kids / Bowery Boys movies on TV. Here's a sampling of Bowery Boys moments, these were silly little films but the cast was so darn good I couldn't get enough.

The history of the films is convoluted, with studio firings, cast changes, and the quality of the films varied wildly in quality. Apparently there was an attempt to launch a new Leo Gorcey / Hunts Hall movie in the 1960s thanks to the popularity of those TV reruns but it never got off the ground.

Despite making 41 (or more depending how you count them) film comedies over a twenty one year span, the boys, together and separate, had a checkered Hollywood career. Hall and Dell performed a nightclub act together but faded from the spotlight; the last film they did together was The Sphinx in 1970.