Bowery Boy (1940)
71 min
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
- Release date
- December 28, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Dennis O'Keefe as Dr. Tom O'Hara
- Louise Campbell as Anne Cleary
- Jimmy Lydon as Sock Dolan
- Helen Vinson as Peggy Winters
- Roger Pryor as J. R. Mason
- Paul Hurst as Blubber Mullins
- Edward Gargan as Mr. Hanson
- Selmer Jackson as Dr. Crane
- John Kelly as Battler
- Howard Hickman as Dr. Axel Winters
Crew
- William Morgan · Director
- Samuel Fuller · Writer
- Sidney Sutherland · Writer
- Robert Chapin · Writer
- Harry Kronman · Writer
- Ernest Miller · Cinematographer
- Edward Mann · Editor
- Murray Seldeen · Editor