4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 25, 2022

There is an immediate sense The Bowery was meant to capitalize on Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper’s success in The Champ from the year prior, as well as the rising stock of George Raft after Scarface. In short, the creative paring works quite well because although Beery was the highest-paid...   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 7, 2015

Leo Gorcey as Slip and Huntz Hall as Sach. I'm sad to say that the Bowery Boys were never nominated for an Academy Award--not even Leo Gorcey or Huntz Hall individually. That would have certainly made for an entertaining ceremony (imagine Slip bopping Sach with the gold statuette!). However, screen   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on October 17, 2013

The Bowery Boys originated with a 1935 Broadway play called “Dead End.” Gorcey and Hall featured in the cast, along with others. Hollywood came a calling in 1937 for the film adaptation Dead End, starring Humphrey Bogart. The “boys” then became a kind of roving band of ragamuffins, billed as the...   read more