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Release Date: 1943

Cast: Bobby Jordan, Noah Beery, Sr., Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Farce, Slapstick

Clancy Street Boys is a 1943 film directed by William Beaudine and starring the East Side Kids. It is Beaudine's first film with the team; he would direct several more in the series and many in the Bowery Boys canon. Leo Gorcey married the female lead [Ame]Lita Ward. The film opens with Mugs trying to avoid being seen on his 18th birthday lest he be given a birthday spanking which happens first from his own gang, secondly from the rival Cherry Street Gang, and lastly by the neighbourhood policeman. The main plot of the film involves Mugs (Leo Gorcey) and his pals posing as a family to... MORE

Clancy Street Boys is a 1943 film directed by William Beaudine and starring the East Side Kids. It is Beaudine's first film with the team; he would direct several more in the series and many in the Bowery Boys canon. Leo Gorcey married the female lead [Ame]Lita Ward. The film opens with Mugs trying to avoid being seen on his 18th birthday lest he be given a birthday spanking which happens first from his own gang, secondly from the rival Cherry Street Gang, and lastly by the neighbourhood policeman. The main plot of the film involves Mugs (Leo Gorcey) and his pals posing as a family to impress a friend of his late father's who is visiting the east side from Texas. The friend "Uncle" Pete Monahan (Noah Beery) has been regularly sending checks to Mugs' impoverished mother to help pay for the upbringing of her many children...none of whom actually exist, except for Mugs. Rather than admit the fraud, Mugs persuades his buddies to pose as his siblings for the friend's visit. This requires Glimpy to dress in drag as a girl and Scruno to claim he was adopted by the family. Pete and his daughter Judy literally ride into the neighbourhood on horseback with both carrying six guns. The charade LESS