"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.
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.
24 October 1941
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
23 September 1940
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse.
15 July 1940
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
01 August 1941
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
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02 June 1944
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
25 August 1944
A little dog tries to steal some bones from a pile of wartime scrap bones (intended for a victory drive) that's being guarded by a big, mean bulldog.
26 February 1944
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
10 November 1944
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house.
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.
01 September 1944
The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city.
06 March 1944
Feature version of the 1941 American serial film of the same name, made for export only, never shown in the USA in any medium, and evidently a lost film.
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.
09 October 1944
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia.
28 April 1944
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field.
05 November 1944
Carolina Cotton Yodeling with the Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang.
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.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1944 Monogram Pictures, Banner Productions.
