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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 ...
In the "Bowery Boys" series, he was the leader of the group, aside from the last seven films in which he didn't appear after his father died, who played Louie the shop owner in the series. Huntz Hall appeared in all incarnations in the series of films, Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and Bowery Boys. In the Bowery Boys, he ...
Undaunted, Gorcey and Bobby Jordan retooled the series as The Bowery Boys. They recruited Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Billy Benedict, and David Gorcey from The East Side Kids. The Bowery Boys became an exceptionally popular staple of theaters and drive-ins, with the films released quarterly. Forty-eight Bowery Boys features were made.
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.
Though he was the youngest, Jordan was the first of the boys who made up the Dead End Kids to work in films with a role in a 1933 Universal short. In 1935, he became one of the original Dead End Kids by winning the role of Angel in Sydney Kingsley's Broadway drama Dead End about life in the slums of the east side of New York City.
The studio filled out the cast with David Gorcey (Leo's younger brother) and Hally Chester. The next three films did not include any of the original Dead End Kids. Little Tough Guys in Society (1939) was more of a lightweight comedy, while the next two, Newsboys' Home and Code of the Streets (1939), were more dramatic.
Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall (August 15, 1920 [1] – January 30, 1999) was an American radio, stage, and movie performer who appeared in the popular "Dead End Kids" movies, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and in the later "Bowery Boys" movies, during the late 1930s to the late 1950s.
David Gorcey's first Bowery Boys film. He would remain with the series up until the end in 1958, playing the role of 'Chuck'. The film, made under the working title In High Gear, is a remake, with Monogram Pictures filming an earlier version in 1938. [1]