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Block Busters is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Wallace Fox released in USA on 22 july 1944 with Leo Gorcey
Block Busters (1944)
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Add to a movie listBlock Busters is a 1944 American film directed by Wallace Fox.
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After an afternoon of playing baseball, Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) and the East Side Kids gang arrive at the door of their clubhouse, where a man named Higgins (silent comedian Harry Langdon, in one of his last film appearances) is removing their "East Side Club" sign. Higgins explains that the owner of the place plans to rent it to some "respectable" tenants. When Muggs learns that the new tenants are due to examine the place at noon the following day, he plans to frighten them away by picking a fight with Butch (Billy Benedict) and the Five Pointers, a rival gang.Actors
Leo Gorcey
(Muggs McGinnis)
Huntz Hall
(Glimpy)
Gabriel Dell
(Skinny)
William Benedict
(Butch)
Noah Beery Sr.
(Judge)
East Side Kids
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