Movie: Bowery Boy

Top 7 Billed Cast

Dennis O'Keefe
Dennis O'Keefe

Dr. Tom O'Hara

Louise Campbell
Louise Campbell

Anne Cleary

Jimmy Lydon
Jimmy Lydon

Sock Dolan

Helen Vinson
Helen Vinson

Peggy Winters

Roger Pryor
Roger Pryor

J. R. Mason

Jack Carr
Jack Carr

Flops

William Benedict
William Benedict

(uncredited)

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    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

    1940-12-28

  • Average

    3

  • Rating:

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    English
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