Smart Alecks

Smart Alecks is a 1942 American film directed by Wallace Fox.

While playing baseball in the street, the Kids accidentally send a ball crashing through the window of the apartment in which Butch and Mike are hiding. Butch emerges and refuses to give the ball back, so Danny Bobby Jordan runs after him. When Joe recognizes Butch, he chases him and Danny trips the criminal, who is then arrested along with Mike. Danny is awarded 200 for capturing the criminals and plans to buy baseball uniforms for his friends. They are unaware of his plans, however, and, thinking he is keeping the money to be selfish, steal it from him and ban him from the club.Dannys sister Ruth Gale Storm calls Joe, who is her boyfriend, and he has the Kids arrested for thievery. The arrest deepens the Kidss resentment of Danny, even though Danny insists that they be released. Once free, the Kids buy an old car with the 200. A month later, Hank breaks out of jail with Butch and Mike and warns Mugs Leo Gorcey, the leader of the Eastside Kids, and the rest of the group that the gangsters are after Danny for getting them arrested. ........

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