Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Bowery Boys (vernacular Bowery B ' hoys) were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish criminal gang based in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City in the early-mid-19th century. In contrast with the Irish immigrant tenement of the Five Points , the Bowery was a more prosperous working-class community.
William Poole (July 24, 1821 – March 8, 1855), also known as Bill the Butcher, was the leader of the Washington Street Gang, which later became known as the Bowery Boys gang. He was a local leader of the Know Nothing political movement in mid-19th-century New York City .
In Anbinder's telling of events, in the aftermath of the gang war, reporters relied heavily on the Bowery Boys for information. The Bowery Boys likely tarred the Roche Guards with the slang term "dead Rabbit party", referring to thieves, and the press continued using the term despite Five Points locals expressing incredulity at the unfamiliar ...
Theaters continued to play Bowery Boys features well into the 1960s. The Bowery Boys (48 titles) was third-longest feature-film series of American origin in motion-picture history (behind the Charles Starrett westerns at 131 titles, and Hopalong Cassidy at 66). The final Bowery Boys film, In the Money, was released in 1958. Only Huntz Hall and ...
Associate of the Bowery Boys and brother-in-law of Bill Poole. [1] William Poole: 1821–1855 Popular sportsman known as "Bill The Butcher", he was one of the most recognized members of the Bowery Boys during the 1840s and 50s. His murder at the hands of Lew Baker resulted in one of the most publicized trials in the city's history. [1] [4]
Bowery Boys may refer to: Bowery Boys (gang), a 19th-century New York gang; The Bowery Boys, a comedy team headlined by Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey; See also.
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917 [1] – June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids, and as adults, The Bowery Boys.
The loose format proved flexible enough to shift back and forth between urban drama (That Gang of Mine), murder mystery (Boys of the City), boxing melodrama (Bowery Blitzkrieg), and horror-comedy (Spooks Run Wild), with the kids confronting various stock villains: gangsters, smugglers, spies, and crooked gamblers, along the way.