Movie Review: East Side Kids (1940)
Synopsis: When Knuckles Dolan is placed on death row for a murder he did not commit simply because he refuses to name names, Det. Pat O'Day forms an athletic club so Knuckles' younger brother, Danny, and Danny's friends can get off the street and not turn to a life of crime too. His efforts are sabotaged when a local counterfeiting ring run by Milton Franklin "Mileaway" Harris tricks the boys into helping him and O'Day is framed as being the person behind it. Who's in it? The movie stars Leon Ames , Dennis Moore, Dave O'Brien , Joyce Bryant, Harris Berger and Jim Farley. Review: When it comes to a movie series, I naturally try to watch the films in order. However, with older movies, that's not always as easy to do as it sounds because of availability. That's why, after watching quite a few East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films, I just now had the opportunity to watch the movie that started them all, East Side Kids . The film turned out to be wor...