The Bowery Boys Collection

From Dead Ends to the East Side and finally landing in Louie's Sweet Shop in the heart of the Bowery (3rd and Canal, natch!), there was no stopping these Boys! When understudy Leo Gorcey joined the ensemble of teen thespians on stage for the Broadway hit "Dead End", Hollywood soon followed with William Wyler taking the troupe in toto for 1937's film version.

48 movies 1946 – 1958 51h 30m total

Movies in this collection

Hard Boiled Mahoney
Hard Boiled Mahoney

Hard Boiled Mahoney

1947 1h 3m Dir. William Beaudine

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty.

News Hounds
News Hounds

News Hounds

1947 1h 8m Dir. William Beaudine

Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.

Bowery Buckaroos
Bowery Buckaroos

Bowery Buckaroos

1947 1h 6m Dir. William Beaudine

The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe.

Jinx Money
Jinx Money

Jinx Money

1948 1h 8m Dir. William Beaudine

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.

Smugglers' Cove
Smugglers' Cove

Smugglers' Cove

1948 1h 6m Dir. William Beaudine

Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney.

Hold That Baby!
Hold That Baby!

Hold That Baby!

1949 1h 4m Dir. Reginald Le Borg

While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance.

Master Minds
Master Minds

Master Minds

1949 1h 4m Dir. Jean Yarbrough

When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.

Lucky Losers
Lucky Losers

Lucky Losers

1950 1h 10m Dir. William Beaudine

Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide.

Triple Trouble
Triple Trouble

Triple Trouble

1950 1h 7m Dir. Jean Yarbrough

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

Hold That Line
Hold That Line

Hold That Line

1952 1h 7m Dir. William Beaudine

The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.

Here Come the Marines
Here Come the Marines

Here Come the Marines

1952 1h 6m Dir. William Beaudine

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted.

Feudin' Fools
Feudin' Fools

Feudin' Fools

1952 1h 3m Dir. William Beaudine

Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.

Jalopy
Jalopy

Jalopy

1953 1h 2m Dir. William Beaudine

Those wacky Bowery Boys invent a superfast 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...

Clipped Wings
Clipped Wings

Clipped Wings

1953 1h 2m Dir. Edward Bernds

Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles?

Private Eyes
Private Eyes

Private Eyes

1953 1h 4m Dir. Edward Bernds

After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.

Paris Playboys
Paris Playboys

Paris Playboys

1954 1h 2m Dir. William Beaudine

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.

Jungle Gents
Jungle Gents

Jungle Gents

1954 1h 4m Dir. Edward Bernds

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.

High Society
High Society

High Society

1955 1h 1m Dir. William Beaudine

Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune.

Dig That Uranium
Dig That Uranium

Dig That Uranium

1955 1h 1m Dir. Edward Bernds

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 mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.