Clancy Street Boys

Clancy Street Boys is a 1943 film directed by William Beaudine and starring the East Side Kids. It is Beaudines first film with the team he would direct several more in the series and many in the Bowery Boys canon. Leo Gorcey married the female lead Amelita Ward.

Just then, Pete and his grown daughter Judy Amelita Ward ride up to the McGinnis apartment on horseback. Mugs declares that the rest of his supposed brothers and sisters are working at a defense plant, and later, forces his gang to pretend to be his siblings. Glimpy Huntz Hall is dressed up like a girl, and Scruno Sammy Morrison, who is black, is introduced as an adopted child. Pete is delighted by the brood and takes them all out to a nightclub for fun.The next day, local opportunist George Mooney Rick Vallin tells Pete that he is being duped by Mugs. Pete is offended when he learns the truth about the McGinnis brood, and tells Mugs to forget he ever had an uncle. The next day, Mugs and the gang go to the hotel to return the gifts and apologize to Judy, and learn that Pete has disappeared. When George, who has arranged Petes kidnapping, comes to the hotel for a visit, the boys hide in another room, but overhear him say that Pete has had an accident, and that he will take Judy to him. ........

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