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Uncle Burke
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1982
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Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed....
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Vince Greeson
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1975
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Detective movies and film-noir are parodied in this comedy that tells the story of a rookie detective who is hired via...
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Screenwriter, Malcolm
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1975
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Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to...
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1974
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Faced with mounting debts and a depleted bank account, Fred and Lamont Sanford (Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson) try to solve their...
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1973
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NBC was seeking a little ethnic diversity (a la Shaft) in its Mystery Movie lineup when the network commissioned Cutter....
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1972
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An drug-rehab encounter group has a 24-hour marathon in this melodrama. As each patient begins discussing his or her life...
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1971
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Georgie Soloway (Dustin Hoffman) is an unbelievably successful composer of popular music. Just in the last year, he has...
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Sid
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1971
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Gabriel Dell guest stars as Arvel, Tony's wheeler-dealer cousin from Texas. Hoping to capitalize on Tony's fame, Arvel...
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1970
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Using the alias "Gene Tyler", Richard Kimble takes a brief respite from his search for the One-Armed Man by attending a...
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1967
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This comedy makes fun of Castro's take-over of Cuba. The story is set upon the mythical Caribbean island of Hondo-Rico,...
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1962
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In this action adventure, a Soviet agent pursues two Americans trying to make it to Copenhagen. They are assisted by a...
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1960
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Blonde Dynamite was the 17th of Monogram/Allied Artists' 48 Bowery Boys entries. This time, the boys have transformed Louie's...
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Gabe Moreno
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1950
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Blues Busters is a first-rate entry in the otherwise hit-and-miss "Bowery Boys" series. After having his tonsils removed,...
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Gabe Moreno
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1950
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Lucky Losers is an uncharacteristically dramatic entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" comedy series. Incredibly enough, Slip...
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Gabe Moreno
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1950
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Gabe Moreno
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1950
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Hold That Baby! was the 14th entry in Monogram's money-spinning "Bowery Boys" series. Ever in search of spare change, the...
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Gabe Moreno
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1949
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In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals...
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Gabe Moreno
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1949
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The 15th film in the Bowery Boys series, Angels in Disguise combines lowbrow humor with "film noir" melodramatics....
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1949
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When in doubt, drag out the "old dark house/mad scientist" formula. That's the philosophy of Master Minds, the 16th entry in...
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Gabe Moreno
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1949
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Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when...
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1948
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Angels Alley was the ninth entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series. This time around, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) welcomes his...
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Slip Mahoney and his boys witness a murder, but cannot identify the...
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Gabe,stunt double for Leo Gorcey
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1948
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Smugglers' Cover was Number Eleven in Monogram's moneymaking "Bowery Boys" series. Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney...
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Gabe Moreno
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1948
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One of the many Bowery Boys movies, in this one Slip and Sach are mistaken for two private investigators and risk their lives...
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1947
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News Hounds has more plot than usual for a "Bowery Boys" film-too much plot, so far as diehard fans of the series were...
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Gabe Moreno
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1947
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Bowery Buckaroos would have the viewer believe that pint-sized sweetshop proprietor Louie Dumbrowski (Bernard Gorcey),...
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Gabe
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1947
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Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a...
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Gabe Moreno
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1946
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The first of the Bowery Boys' "haunted house" comedies, Spook Busters casts the boys as recent graduates of Exterminators'...
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Gabe Moreno
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1946
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1946
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One of the more remarkable aspects of this "East Side Kids" comedy is that, for the first time, one of the "Kids" is a girl,...
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Pete
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1945
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A lesser East Side Kids effort, Block Busters looks more like an elongated 2-reel comedy than a 6-reel feature. This time,...
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Skinny
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1944
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The East Side Kids are back in Follow the Leader, one of their most consistently funny outings. While on leave from the Army,...
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W.W. "Fingers" Belmont
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1944
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By the time Bowery Champs came out, the East Side Kids had become so domesticated that they actually had jobs. Muggs...
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1944
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The East Side Kids were betwixt and between their earlier roughneck characterizations and their later Bowery Boys buffoonery...
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Lefty
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1944
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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The East Side Kids come face to face with High Society in Mr. Muggs Steps Out. Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs...
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Dips Nolan
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1943
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Amateur fighter and all-around bully Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey) tries to cheat in a pool game with hustler Harry Wycoff...
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Harry Wyckoff
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1943
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
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String
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1943
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Set soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Let's Get Tough! opens with the East Side Kids -- Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall,...
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1942
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The Dead End Kids take on a sinister gang of Japanese terrorists in this 12-chapter followup to the 1940 Universal serial...
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1942
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In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load...
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1942
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In this crime drama, an ambitious law student begins working for a corrupt finance company and becomes the neighborhood...
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1942
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Short of funds to buy baseball uniforms, the East Side Kids are forced to go to work for their crooked ex-pal Hank (Gabriel...
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Henry "Hank" Salko
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1942
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The East Side Kids, featuring Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, star in this spirited blend of action and comedy. The...
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1942
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This wildly uneven "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" entry focuses on young Tom Barker (Billy Halop), whose older brother...
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String
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1941
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German director Joe May was light-years removed from his glory days at UFA when he helmed the "Little Tough Guys" entry Hit...
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String
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1941
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This 12-chapter Universal serial is one of several that Universal made featuring the Dead End Kids (also known as The East...
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1941
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The Dead End Kids fight alongside the government to find a famed scientist who has been abducted by wartime traitors. ~ Jason...
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1940
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This "Little Tough Guys" series entry finds the kids gainfully employed building airplane engines. Hoping to get into the air...
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String
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1940
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In this entry in the long running saga of the "Dead End Kids," the East Side boys leave the Big Apple and go to California to...
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String
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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Ace
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1939
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Luigi
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1939
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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, one of the Kids goes to military school and learns, with the help of his late...
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Cadet Georgie Warren
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1939
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran...
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String
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1938
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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1937
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