"Muggs must fight a new French kid who has just moved into the neighborhood." 22 July 1944 Comedy 60 mins
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
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Leo Gorcey as Muggs McGinnis
Huntz Hall as Glimpy
Gabriel Dell as Skinny
William Benedict as Butch
Fred Pressel as Jean
Jimmy Strand as Danny
Bill Chaney as Tobey
Roberta Smith as Jinx
Noah Beery as Judge
Harry Langdon as Higgins
Minerva Urecal as Amelia Rogiet
Jack Gilman as Batter
Kay Marvis as Irma
Tom Herbert as Meyer
Bernard Gorcey as Lippman
Charles Murray Jr. as Umpire
United States 22 July 1944
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03 June 1944
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this.
10 March 1941
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
15 December 1940
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers.
07 August 1942
Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the money with them.
25 November 1944
Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent.
05 February 1943
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped.
20 November 1942
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer.
28 February 1944
In ridding the area of muggers, the East Side Boys acquire a wealthy benefactor whose privileged son, unbeknownst to him, has fallen in with thugs.
20 February 1942
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death.
29 September 1945
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
24 October 1941
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
29 October 1943
Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants.
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25 May 1944
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08 February 1944
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas.
29 July 1944
This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks by deputy marshal Harry Stevens and, when he orders them out of town, Slade kills him.
03 March 1944
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23 November 1944
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace.
22 October 1944
A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona.
26 August 1944
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen.
16 August 1944
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
01 January 1944
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, Reporter"), "Black Arrow" finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
02 January 1944
After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
25 April 1944
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial.
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