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10 unusual facts about East Side Kids


'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

The film is the eleventh installment in the East Side Kids series and one of the more dramatic films of the series, released at a time when they were making lighter, more humorous fare.

Bowery Champs

Bowery Champs is an American film starring the East Side Kids.

Clancy Street Boys

Clancy Street Boys is a 1943 film directed by William Beaudine and starring the East Side Kids.

Docks of New York

Docks of New York is a 1945 film starring the East Side Kids.

Flying Wild

Flying Wild is a 1941 film and the fifth installment of the East Side Kids series.

Give Us Wings

After completing this film, Bobby Jordan left the Universal Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys series, and signed on to Monogram Pictures to costar with fellow Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey in the East Side Kids series.

Hard Boiled Mahoney

In this film, he reprises his character of 'Talman' (a.k.a. 'Pete') that he portrayed in the East Side Kids final film Come Out Fighting.

Keep 'Em Slugging

Dave Durand, a member of the concurrent running East Side Kids series, appears as an extra in this film, and Jane Frazee and Robert Paige make uncredited appearances as stars in the movie house film.

Pride of the Bowery

Pride of the Bowery is a black-and-white 1940 film and the fourth installment in the East Side Kids series.

That Gang of Mine

That Gang of Mine is a 1940 film and the third film in the East Side Kids series.


Live Wires

He had previously played a rival gang member in the East Side Kids film Clancy Street Boys.

Sam Katzman

He is noted for numerous westerns of the '30s, his Bela Lugosi and East Side Kids features of the '40s, the 15-chapter Superman serial of 1948 and a string of rock-'n'-roll musicals in the '50s. At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the '60s Katzman produced several Elvis Presley films and singer Roy Orbison's only film, The Fastest Guitar Alive.