Bowery Champs

Bowery Champs is an American film starring the East Side Kids. Released in 1944, it was directed by William Beaudine.

At the time of the murder, Jim Lindsey Gabriel Dell, the star reporter of the American Express paper, is busily bidding on oriental rugs at an auction and consequently misses the story. Deciding to cover the murder for the absent Jim, Muggs McGinnis Leo Gorcey, who is working as a copy boy on the paper, asks Glimpy Huntz Hall to drive him to the Wilson house in the papers delivery car. At the house, Muggs and Glimpy sneak through an open window and listen as the police interrogate Wilsons mistress, Diane Gibson Thelma White, an entertainer at the nightclub, and Ken Duncan Ian Keith, Wilsons manager. Duncan recalls that Gypsy threatened Wilsons life, and the police lieutenant states that a .38 caliber bullet was used to kill Wilson. The houseboy Joe Bautista then reveals that right after the murder, he saw a woman wearing a fuzzy coat and funny hat hail a yellow cab with a dented fender.After purchasing his rug, Jim hears about the murder and hurries to the Wilson house to investigate. Meanwhile, Muggs, Glimpy and the other East Side Kids go to the taxi stand and learn from the driver Bernard Gorcey that he delivered a woman wearing a fuzzy coat to the Stephens apartment building, where Gypsy lives. As Muggs and the boys drive to the apartment building, the police arrive at the taxi stand, question the driver and dispatch a car to arrest Gypsy. When Muggs and the boys question Gypsy, she protests her innocence. Noticing the police car pull up to the curb, Muggs instructs Skinny Billy Benedict to don Gypsys hat and coat and speed away in the newspapers car. ........

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