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1. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,213
2. Hold That Baby! (1949)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Comedy
The boys find a baby amid the bundles in their new laundry business, the heir to a fortune left in their care in his mother's desperate attempt to stave off conniving relatives.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro
Votes: 286
3. The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Bowery Boys enter a creepy house where they engage in slapstick with the Gravesend Family, comprising a creepy butler, two mad scientists, a crazy old woman with a man-eating plant, a savage gorilla, an 8' robot, and a vampiress.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 796
4. Little Tough Guy (1938)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama
After his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for survival. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for money while Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Robert Wilcox, Helen Parrish, Marjorie Main, Jackie Searl
Votes: 225
5. The Toast of New York (1937)
Approved | 109 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Notorious robber baron financier Jim Fisk, who makes and loses fortunes, tries to corner the gold market as well as the heart of a beautiful actress.
Directors: Rowland V. Lee, Alexander Hall | Stars: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie
Votes: 1,212
6. Master Minds (1949)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
Candy on a toothache turns Sach into a prognosticator, which attracts the attention of an exploitative Slip and a personality-switching doctor hoping to create an obedient super race.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Alan Napier
Votes: 412
7. Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Mistaken for a detective, Slip takes on the case of a missing woman, which turns out to be bogus.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 362
8. Jungle Gents (1954)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Family
When the boys discover that Sach has a strange ability to sniff out diamonds, they hatch a scheme to make money out of it.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Laurette Luez
Votes: 365
9. High Society (1955)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
Sach becomes a pawn in a crooked trio's scheme to swindle an inheritance from its rightful pre-adolescent heir.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Amanda Blake
Votes: 394
10. No Holds Barred (1952)
65 min | Comedy, Family
Sach acquires super strength, which the boys attempt to cash in on by turning him into a professional wrestler.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Marjorie Reynolds, Bernard Gorcey
Votes: 333
11. Blonde Dynamite (1950)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
With Louie away, Slip turns the Sweet Shop into an escort service that attracts the attention of bank robbers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 415
12. Up in Smoke (1957)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Eddie LeRoy
Votes: 196
13. The Bowery Boys - Legends of Laughter (2022)
83 min | Comedy
It's 30 years of film clips, rare interviews, out-takes, stills, and more in this tribute to the films and private lives of these comedy legends. Stories by the cast, actors, directors, and writers, too.
Director: Mark Gilman Jr. | Stars: William 'Billy' Benedict, Edward Bernds, Julie Gibson, Leo Gorcey
14. In the Money (1958)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
Sach is hired as the companion for a poodle on an ocean voyage from New York to London. What he doesn't know is that the people who hired him are actually diamond smugglers, and there is a cache of diamonds hidden in the poodle's coat.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Patricia Donahue, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 203
15. In Fast Company (1946)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Slip confronts a monopolizing taxicab company whose criminal tactics aim to drive its rivals out of business.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Jane Randolph, Judy Clark
Votes: 337
16. Bowery to Bagdad (1954)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Family
The boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Joan Shawlee
Votes: 397
17. Hot Shots (1956)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Family
A precocious young TV star steals Sach's and Duke's car, and they run up against some network executives when they go to find out what happened. The executives believe that the boys know ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Joi Lansing, Phil Phillips
Votes: 210
18. Jinx Money (1948)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
A man wins $50, 000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 298
19. Bowery Bombshell (1946)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey and Chuck unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's Malt Shop.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 419
20. Let's Go Navy! (1951)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Allen Jenkins, Tom Neal
Votes: 323
21. Smugglers' Cove (1948)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
The Bowery Boys run into a smuggling operation when Slip checks out a manor he mistakenly believes he's inherited
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Martin Kosleck
Votes: 349
22. Live Wires (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Crime
Slip, who has difficulties in keeping any job for long, is hired by the District Attorney's office to serve summons and warrants to problematic citizens.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Mike Mazurki, Bobby Jordan
Votes: 420
23. Jalopy (1953)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Family
Those wacky Bowery Boys invent a super fast fuel, which will help them win an auto race (isn't this cheating?). However, the fuel is stolen by the bad guys just before the big race.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Robert Lowery
Votes: 369
24. News Hounds (1947)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family
Working for the New York Daily Chronicle, Slip and the boys seek to expose rumored gamblers fixing sports events.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 324
25. Dig That Uranium (1955)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Mary Beth Hughes
Votes: 318
26. Jail Busters (1955)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
Chuck, a reporter for The Blade newspaper, gets beaten up while trying to get a story on prison corruption, and the rest of the Bowery Boys, Slip, Sach, and Butch, get themselves arrested ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Barton MacLane
Votes: 321
27. Here Come the Marines (1952)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy
The boys get drafted into the Marines. On their first day in basic training, their commanding officer discovers that Sach's dad is an old war buddy of his, so he makes Sach a sergeant and ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hanley Stafford, Myrna Dell
Votes: 280
28. Angels' Alley (1948)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring. While trying to help Jimmy get out of the ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 279
29. Spook Busters (1946)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy
Newly graduated from exterminator college, Slip and the boys open a pest control business. Their first job leads to a doctor who wants to transplant Sach's brain.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille, Bobby Jordan
Votes: 560
30. Hold That Hypnotist (1957)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
Sach and Duke set out to expose a stage hypnotist as a phony. In order to do so, Sach allows himself to be hypnotized and "regressed" to a past life--which he discovers was as a tax ... See full summary »
Director: Austen Jewell | Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Jane Nigh, Robert Foulk
Votes: 221
31. Angels in Disguise (1949)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Bowery Boys investigate a murder, and all the evidence points to the involvement of the notorious Loop gang.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Mickey Knox
Votes: 280
32. Paris Playboys (1954)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Family
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Veola Vonn
Votes: 321
33. Triple Trouble (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Slip, Sach, Whitey, Butch and Chuck witness a warehouse robbery, and are arrested and jailed on suspicion. Gabe Moreno, their lawyer-friend gets them released on bail. Since the charge of ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Richard Benedict
Votes: 299
34. Fighting Fools (1949)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, Comedy
The gang teams up with a fighter to break up a fight-fixing racket.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro
Votes: 286
35. Spy Chasers (1955)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
Slip, Sach and the gang get mixed up in political intrigue when they try to help an exiled European king and his daughter regain the throne that is rightfully theirs.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Leon Askin
Votes: 351
36. Bowery Boy (1940)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, ... See full summary »
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Campbell, Jimmy Lydon, Helen Vinson
Votes: 29
37. Clipped Wings (1953)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Family
Slip and Sach mistakenly enlist in the Air Force where Sach is mistakenly assigned to the WACs.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Renie Riano
Votes: 323
38. Looking for Danger (1957)
62 min | Comedy, Family
When an army official wants Duke to account for a missing pot, Duke recalls how he and Sach ended up working as secret agents during World War II.
Director: Austen Jewell | Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Lili Kardell, David Gorcey
Votes: 174
39.
Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )
Episode:
Atlantic City and the Boardwalk Empire
(2013)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, Action, Crime
We meet the legendary figures of Atlantic City and the Boardwalk including Prohibition era kingpin Nucky Johnson who ran the area, and discover how rum running and bootlegging built an empire.
Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke