Leo Gorcey
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1917-06-03
Locus Natus: New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: Leo Bernard Gorcey
Kid Dynamite
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend...
release : 1943.02.05popularis : 3.958
Let's Get Tough
Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a...
release : 1942.05.29popularis : 1.986
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is...
release : 1963.11.07popularis : 18.833
Midnight Manhunt
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
release : 1945.07.27popularis : 8.232
Mr. Wise Guy
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes...
release : 1942.02.20popularis : 2.364
Million Dollar Kid
The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one...
release : 1944.02.28popularis : 2.453
Pride of the Bowery
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain...
release : 1940.12.15popularis : 3.62
Mannequin
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...
release : 1938.01.21popularis : 3.434
They Made Me a Criminal
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
release : 1939.01.21popularis : 4.257
Out of the Fog
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves...
release : 1941.06.14popularis : 5.831
Dead End
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...
release : 1937.08.27popularis : 6.637
Angels with Dirty Faces
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry...
release : 1938.11.26popularis : 13.215
Spooks Run Wild
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
release : 1941.10.24popularis : 2.377
The Phynx
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
release : 1970.03.06popularis : 5.13
Bowery Blitzkrieg
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...
release : 1941.08.01popularis : 4.33
Bowery to Bagdad
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
release : 1955.01.07popularis : 3.223
Jinx Money
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was...
release : 1948.06.27popularis : 1.972
Ghosts on the Loose
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
release : 1943.07.30popularis : 4.334
Spook Busters
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old...
release : 1946.08.24popularis : 4.497
Crime School
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who...
release : 1938.05.10popularis : 2.766
Born to Sing
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
release : 1942.02.18popularis : 1.031
So This Is New York
A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of...
release : 1948.06.01popularis : 1.724
Boys of the City
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
release : 1940.07.15popularis : 2.101
Flying Wild
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting...
release : 1941.03.10popularis : 2.603
Maisie Gets Her Man
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...
release : 1942.06.01popularis : 2.237
Angels' Alley
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
release : 1948.03.07popularis : 0.873
Destroyer
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the...
release : 1943.08.19popularis : 2.794
Bowery Bombshell
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a...
release : 1946.07.20popularis : 4.529
Bowery Buckaroos
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted...
release : 1947.11.22popularis : 4.564
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire
release : 1954.06.06popularis : 4.116
Loose in London
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
release : 1953.05.24popularis : 5.146
Angels Wash Their Faces
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...
release : 1939.08.26popularis : 2.533
Smart Alecks
Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share...
release : 1942.08.07popularis : 2.983
Ghost Chasers
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
release : 1951.04.29popularis : 4.228
Dig That Uranium
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of...
release : 1955.12.25popularis : 2.547
Hold That Line
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football...
release : 1952.03.23popularis : 3.999
Jalopy
Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist...
release : 1953.02.15popularis : 4.712
Paris Playboys
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist,...
release : 1954.03.07popularis : 4.082
Let's Go Navy!
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
release : 1951.07.29popularis : 4.31
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 0.926
Swingtime in the Movies
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
release : 1938.12.24popularis : 2.067
Feudin' Fools
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a...
release : 1952.09.21popularis : 3.655
No Holds Barred
One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
release : 1952.11.23popularis : 4.28
Jungle Gents
When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to...
release : 1954.09.05popularis : 2.767
Clipped Wings
Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms....
release : 1953.08.14popularis : 3.24
Triple Trouble
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives...
release : 1950.08.13popularis : 4.894
Master Minds
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him...
release : 1949.11.27popularis : 4.012
High Society
Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to...
release : 1955.04.17popularis : 5.541
Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
In this musical gem, big-hearted Jubal Bristol (Arnold Stang) takes it upon himself to mount a country and western benefit concert after the opera...
release : 1966.12.29popularis : 3.811
Bowery Battalion
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
release : 1951.01.24popularis : 4.778
Blues Busters
The Bowery Boys (Bowery Boys) open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
release : 1950.10.29popularis : 4.549
Angels in Disguise
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
release : 1949.09.25popularis : 5.058
Private Eyes
After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in...
release : 1953.12.06popularis : 4.515
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...
release : 1983.02.25popularis : 11.399
Follow the Leader
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged...
release : 1944.06.03popularis : 3.335
Hell's Kitchen
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the...
release : 1939.07.08popularis : 2.455
Spy Chasers
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
release : 1955.07.31popularis : 3.284
The Beloved Brat
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...
release : 1938.04.30popularis : 1.577
Jail Busters
Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
release : 1955.09.18popularis : 3.251
In Fast Company
The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
release : 1946.06.22popularis : 3.737
Crashing Las Vegas
An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their...
release : 1956.04.27popularis : 2.618
On Dress Parade
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
release : 1939.11.18popularis : 3.515
Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
release : 1940.11.15popularis : 1.101
Here Come the Marines
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and...
release : 1952.06.29popularis : 7.063
Trouble Makers
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
release : 1948.12.10popularis : 4.074
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their...
release : 1942.11.20popularis : 2.756
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb....
release : 2007.03.10popularis : 1.751
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown,...
release : 1945.07.15popularis : 1.208
Blonde Dynamite
While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.
release : 1950.02.12popularis : 4.139
Angels with Broken Wings
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But...
release : 1941.05.27popularis : 1.294
Lucky Losers
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...
release : 1950.05.14popularis : 4.396
Mr. Hex
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
release : 1946.11.09popularis : 4.101
Crazy Over Horses
The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
release : 1951.09.09popularis : 4.88
Docks of New York
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.
release : 1945.02.24popularis : 0.974
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand...
release : 1947.05.10popularis : 3.277
Portia on Trial
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle...
release : 1937.11.08popularis : 3.035
That Gang of Mine
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The...
release : 1940.09.23popularis : 3.676
Clancy Street Boys
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the...
release : 1943.04.23popularis : 1.414
Smuggler's Cove
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name,...
release : 1948.10.10popularis : 4.08
Sunday Punch
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers),...
release : 1942.05.08popularis : 3.231
Hullabaloo
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
release : 1940.10.25popularis : 1.524
Block Busters
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean...
release : 1944.07.22popularis : 0.907
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an...
release : 1943.10.29popularis : 1.137
Come Out Fighting
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
release : 1945.09.29popularis : 1.058
Bowery Champs
Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from...
release : 1944.11.25popularis : 1.591
Hold That Baby!
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been...
release : 1949.06.06popularis : 3.752
Live Wires
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip...
release : 1946.01.12popularis : 3.763
Fighting Fools
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek...
release : 1949.03.17popularis : 6.04
News Hounds
Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring...
release : 1947.08.13popularis : 1.351
The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter
Thirty years of film clips, interviews, outtakes, stills and more pay tribute to the lives and work of the comedy legends known as the Bowery Boys.
release : 2020.01.01popularis : 3.049
Down in San Diego
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at...
release : 1941.08.01popularis : 2.111
Private Detective
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
release : 1939.12.09popularis : 3.851
Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
release : 1939.12.30popularis : 5.671
Headin' East
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
release : 1937.12.13popularis : 0.889