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Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Actor 1912 - 1989

Sunshine Sammy Morrison

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.

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13 titles
Kid Dynamite

Kid Dynamite

Wallace Fox 1943 1h 6m 5.0

The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.

Ghosts on the Loose

Ghosts on the Loose

William Beaudine 1943 1h 7m 6.0

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Clancy Street Boys

Clancy Street Boys

William Beaudine 1943 1h 6m

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.

Let's Get Tough!

Let's Get Tough!

Wallace Fox 1942 1h 2m 5.0

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead.

In This Our Life

In This Our Life

John Huston 1942 1h 37m 9.0

The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband. Her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

Wallace Fox 1942 1h 1m

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.

Spooks Run Wild

Spooks Run Wild

Phil Rosen 1941 1h 5m 5.0

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Flying Wild

Flying Wild

William West 1941 1h 4m 6.0

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Wallace Fox 1941 1h 2m 5.0

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

That Gang of Mine

That Gang of Mine

Joseph H. Lewis 1940 1h 2m

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.

Pride of the Bowery

Pride of the Bowery

Joseph H. Lewis 1940 1h 8m

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.

Boys of the City

Boys of the City

Joseph H. Lewis 1940 1h 8m 5.0

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

Haunted Spooks

Haunted Spooks

Hal Roach, Alfred J. Goulding 1920 25m 6.0

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.

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