Bowery Champs

Bowery Champs (1944)

BAFFLING MYSTERY OF MURDER!

Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate.

Date of release
1944-11-25
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 2m
Genres
Comedy, Action
Director
William Beaudine
Collection
East Side Kids Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Bowery Champs is a 1944 American film directed by William Beaudine and starring the East Side Kids.

Production

In 1944 producer Sam Katzman was making feature films for the "budget" Monogram Pictures studio. He commissioned a newspaper-office set for Bowery Champs (which began filming on June 5, 1944 as Muggs Meets a Deadline). With the producer's typical thrift he retained the set and some of the crew members (as well as actors Billy Benedict, Wheeler Oakman, and Frank Jaquet) for Brenda Starr, Reporter, a serial Katzman was making on the side for Columb…

While on leave from military duty, Bobby Jordan visited the set during its filming and he was written into the film (as himself) at the last minute.

The film marks Jimmy Strand's last East Side Kids film, while it includes Leo Gorcey's father, Bernard, as Mr. Johnson, the taxi driver.

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