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Bowery Champs is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William Beaudine released in USA on 25 november 1944 with Leo Gorcey
Bowery Champs (1944)
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Add to a movie listBowery Champs is an American film starring the East Side Kids. Released in 1944, it was directed by William Beaudine.
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After she files for divorce from nightclub owner Tom Wilson (Wheeler Oakman), former Broadway star Gypsy Carmen (Evelyn Brent) demands that he return the securities that she owned before their marriage. When Wilson claims that the securities are missing, Gypsy pulls a gun from her purse and aims it at him. At that moment, a gun is fired through the window of his house. Tom falls dead and Gypsy flees in panic.Actors
Leo Gorcey
(Muggs McGinnis)
Huntz Hall
(Glimpy McClusky)
Gabriel Dell
(Jim Lindsay)
William Benedict
(Skinny)
Bobby Jordan
(Bobby Jordan)
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Rating62%
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, 1h3Directed by William Beaudine
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Sach (Huntz Hall) just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip (Leo Gorcey) goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
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, 1h6Directed by William Beaudine
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Spook Busters (1946)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
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Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey
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, 1h3Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey
Rating59%
The boys are trying to raise money for their friend Gloria. She has to give up her aspiring singing career in order to stay home and take care of her sick mother. Slip comes up with the idea to hypnotize Sach into thinking he is an unbeatable fighter so that they can enter him into a contest to win $2,500. Meanwhile, Gabe brokers a deal with a crooked nightclub owner to give Gloria the big break she has been waiting for. The nightclub owner then hires a ringer to fight Sach as well as his own hypnotist to counter Slip's control over Sach in order to collect a fortune from everyone who has bet on Sach.
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Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
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Rating60%
As he and Glimpy Freedhoff (Huntz Hall) anxiously anticipate their furlough home, Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) is summoned to the colonel (Bryant Washburn)'s office and informed that he is to be honorably discharged because of poor eyesight. At home in the Bowery, Muggs is tearfully telling his proud mother (Mary Gordon) about his discharge when Glimpy bursts into the apartment with the news that Danny (Dave Durand) has been jailed.
Jinx Money (1948)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
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Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Benny Bartlett
Rating60%
Pollack, an underworld gambler, is murdered, but before he dies he hides $50,000 that he just won gambling in a newspaper and kicks it under a car. The next day Sach and Slip are walking in the street and find the paper and the cash. Gabe, who is a reporter, runs a story on them finding the money and the gangsters that Pollack won the money from come looking for them. One by one they take the money from the boys and are immediately killed by the mysterious "umbrella". Eventually the boys get tired of having the money taken from them and people dying around them so they hand the money over to the police. The "umbrella", not knowing that they boys no longer have the money, comes to collect it from them and is captured by the police who were staking the boys hideout waiting for the killer.
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, 1h9Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Buddy Gorman
Rating61%
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer.
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, 1h7Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Buddy Gorman
Rating65%
Sach develops an uncanny ability to sing, after having his tonsils removed, and Slip convinces Louie to turn his sweet shop into a night club, The Bowery Palace, after unsuccessfully trying to get Sach a singing job at a neighboring club, The Rio Cabana.