Kids are like a leak in the roof. If you don't fix it after a while, it gets worse. That's the theory of cop Warren Hull who wants to prevent the East Side Kids from further trouble. Charlotte Henry is concerned about scrappy brother Bobby Jordan for public fighting, but ma Martha Wentworth (surrogate mother to everybody on the east side) encourages the boys to be boys. Former friends Jordan and Leo Gorcey fight over remarks that Gorcey made about Henry which results with Gorcey ending up in jail.
Gorcey and Huntz Hall provide their numerous assortment of malapropisms, some funnier than others, and Sammy Morrison surprises everyone with frequent bursts of knowledge. Keye Luke is bery funny as the pool hall operator, jokingly nicknamed Clancy. Hull works to turn the kid's lives around by getting them to take their fighting into the ring which of course leads to criminal activity going on.
Corny Irish humor overwhelms, some of it actually funny. Minerva Urecal (who would be a recurring presence in many of the future endeavors of the East Side/Bowery Boys) gets laughs at her expense as a reform school matron. At just over an hour this speeds by, but the title doesn't seem right for the film. Interesting note about one of the standing sets is that it would be used for other structures in future films, some nowhere close to the Bowery.
Gorcey and Huntz Hall provide their numerous assortment of malapropisms, some funnier than others, and Sammy Morrison surprises everyone with frequent bursts of knowledge. Keye Luke is bery funny as the pool hall operator, jokingly nicknamed Clancy. Hull works to turn the kid's lives around by getting them to take their fighting into the ring which of course leads to criminal activity going on.
Corny Irish humor overwhelms, some of it actually funny. Minerva Urecal (who would be a recurring presence in many of the future endeavors of the East Side/Bowery Boys) gets laughs at her expense as a reform school matron. At just over an hour this speeds by, but the title doesn't seem right for the film. Interesting note about one of the standing sets is that it would be used for other structures in future films, some nowhere close to the Bowery.