Best of the Bowery Boys

[paudistooge]

I can still remember watching Dead End/East Side Kids and Bowery Boys with my dad when I was a little girl. But I love & appreciate them more now, now that I am nearing 60. Their first movie, Dead End, is a favorite. Amazing to see them when they first started out. I have some of their movies & books, and I agree that so many people are missing out today because they are no longer shown on tv. And if id been born earlier, I would have been the only wife Leo would have ever needed! :-)

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[jvblhc]

@TonyfromConey It was called Blues Busters. Sach develops a voice like Bing Crosby. One of my favorites. It was also the last Bowery Boys film Gabe Dell appeared in.

[TheGuitarPat]

It was a different World back then... Back when I was a kid in the 60s. Sunday Picture Show with my Dad... Fond memories!!

Thanks for posting.

[NewYorkFlavour]

Two's company, and tree's a crowd !!

[Aranosky]

Gracias! Lo masssssss!!!

[therealraybaby]

When i was a kid in da 70's, dis my was my shit.

[1400deadwood]

I also watched WNEW's Eastside Comedy shows on Saturdays mornings. But can anyone PLEASE post clips from The Bowery shows that were presented on that channel on those mornings as well? These were movies of life/death on the Bowery during that era but nobody seems to remember the show or the movies.

[robphilll22]

Used to watch Eastside comedy (The Bowery Boys) on WNEW in NYC every weekend.Loved listening to Leo Gorcey (SLIP MAHONEY) fracture the English language.The undisputed king of malapropism.Satch, Whitey, Chuck and lovable Louie Dumbrowsky for comic texture.Favorite episodes, Bowery Boys Meet The Monster and Hold That LIne.

[LkOutMtnMan]

My favorite line is where Leo turns to Snatch and tells him to "Fertilize this scalpel " Seems he was about to do surgery in one of the films!

[Mgarguemare]

I love these guys, I used to watch them when I was a little girl in the 60s. I still watch them once in a great while when they are shown on the classic movie channel.

[agirlyman]

Laughing my fat ass off, I totally forgot about these clowns of my youth! Ebert tweeted about them jogging my memory.

[olddude521]

It always amazed me that the Bowery Boys were in their thirties and still hanging around Louie's Sweet Shop.Talk about a case of arrested development!

[fatalcoolfatalcool]

Huntz Hall really has a close resemblance to Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick. They both have the trademark ballcap with flipped-up lid.

[dukeyflyswatter]

I met Huntz Hall about a year before he died. I was very excited to hear he was going to be at a wrap party i was attending. I guess he was having a bad day because I was crest fallen to see him acting like a real A-hole.

[LazlosPlane]

Way too intellectual for me.

[JubalCalif]

@LazlosPlane

Ha! Heavens to Murgatroid...your droll comment made my day! THANKS for posting! :-)

[bruhe]

I always hated Leo Gorcey with his stupid hat and his big yap. Get Brett Wier I said!

[loveoldmovies]

They are very endearing for those of us who grew up watching them in the theater or on TV.

But as films and characters, they are so dated and few TV stations would show them anymore, except the TCM channel. Because they get almost no TV exposure nowadays, many people aren't familiar with them.

[tomkes100]

Th Bowery boys ah this film/tv historian knows to well. These guys were the best 1037-58.i met Huntz at a benefit at my hometown in 76. Very reserved and private.I have all their films on tape. Theyre the best EVer. TOMKES

[seaeire60]

Satch was the best !!

[littlefuzzer]

what a great time this was..I remeber being a little kid sitting in my grandmas house on a sunday morning watching this..Satch was the best.

[1952kid]

it was Eastside Comedy, in NYC . Slip and Satch. Louies Sweet shop. And bieng a kid in the early 1960's, and watching these great movies. . They just vanished sometime in the 1960's forever. Sunday with the Bowery Boys , i really dont know why these arent on tv anymore.

[iwtricapecod]

Boy do I miss these movies!!!

[Buffy183]

me too

[999YORK]

Loved the East Side Kids, Bowery Boys,

Dead End Kids, watched them on either the New York Station WPIX or WNEW during the 60's

I wonder if anyone can help me, I was about ten watching another gang of kids in a movie. I remember it was one group of kids preparing battle against another. It seemed like it was rich versus the poor side of town. Well anyway I watched it in great anticipation of the battle, and unfortunately our T.V. died and that movie has been haunting me ever since.

[Ki2Apple]

there´s a french movie from that period called "war of buttons" based on a book. one group of boys fight a nonstop war against another group from a different villlage. the story is set before WW2 i believe.

[999YORK]

Thank you for your response. Do you know when the movie came out.?

[LTBL88]

@999YORK it might be "the outsiders"? or maybe "rumble fish"

[alexmac25]

if it was in the 80's it may have had a bunch of stars in it patrick swayze tom cruize ralph macchio emilio estevez and mat dillion. then it was the outsiders. there's been a bunch of punk vs square type of movies though @999YORK

[Kharkovkid]

What was the one where "The Chief'" is working as a copy boy and he rewrites a sports story using bowery-ese...Outstanding!!

[mwbeatles]

newshounds

[deemilieu]

didn't that kooky lookin guy in the ball cap go on to play guitar with cheap trick???

[hrktkt]

ur kiddin me, right?  the bowery boys was filmed in the mid '50s

[cabolynn]

Ah Yea Hello

[prchristman]

Films here are Jalopy (1953), No Holds Barred (1952), Dig That Uranium (1956), and back to No Holds Barred. Most recognizable co-star was Marjorie Reynolds (starting at 2:07), who in that film was in with the bad guys.

I watched the later films (slapstick era) all the time on Channel 5 in New York long ago. The earlier films were more in the cheap melodrama camp (at least to me), and I paid less attention. But they had better sets and some decent actors like Mike Mazurki or Frankie Darro.

[TrikkerMan2]

who dat say who dat when I say who dat.

[lakeviewviking]

What's a good source for the Boys on dvd? It seems like Warner Bros is gonna drag their feet forever when it comes to releasing an official box set.

[ericinwisconsin]

I hear ya. I'd love to find a copy of "Hold That Hypnotist". Not one of their best, and Leo isn't even in it, but for some reason, I always found that one funny.

[lakeviewviking]

There's boot dvd's floating around on ebay, etc....i have a few. The VHS tapes thay WB released in the 90s are out the too; i have one of GHOST CHASERS.

[gtc1961]

I have a lot of them on DVD but none are the ones where they hang around in Louis sweet shop.

[residentflea]

I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid. Is it me or does Curtis Sliwa look like or want to be just like Leo Gorcey?

[bobandrayfan1]

Dose guys are da best. Huntz Hall died a multimillionaire..he invested his money very well. His last TV work that I remember was in the short run TV series The Chicago Teddy Bears..he played "Dutch"

[83survivor]

Love these guys, The Bowery Boys. Though I prefer the Dead End Kids with Billy Halop as the leader, but the Bowery Boys are awesome. True old school late 30s-early 40s New Yorker attitude. The Dead End Kids/Bower Boys were like the original Outsiders of their times.

[saxophoney]

Thanks! Always watched the Bowery Boys on Sunday mornings. The cheesy story line was always "Satch gets some super power" and hyginks insue(Satch has x-ray vision; Satch can read minds; Satch is super strong). Loved 'em.

[h0gwartz]

nice job putting these clips together. I used to watch these every Sunday morning on channel 11, too. I'm sure I've seen about 100 different ones as they grew up from East Side (or Dead End) kids to the Bowery Boys. Some were better than others, but I never saw a bad one.

[rsoubiea]

OMG I grew up watching this stuff on tv, i was a child of the 50's-60's. I love SACH.

thanks so much for posting.

[LARATTAE9174]

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!! Loved your video clips. It took me back 60 years when I used to watch these guys every week at our local cinema in Lancashire, England.

[cornetfab]

estuve 30 años sin verlos. que emocion!!!!

[kenrubes]

fedop, you're the greatest. This show gave me tons of happiness when I was a kid. I use to watch the Bowery Boys all the time in the late 60's and early 70's.........I think it was on Sunday mornings on Channel 11 in NY......I think..

[moco635]

that goes for me too!

[brooklynheart]

I miss seeing them on TV too - there was a time when Nick at Night actually had the shows I grew up on as a young kid ... now they show stuff I watched as a much older kid - you think they'd show these guys, laurel and hardy - and all the others - its great TV, not like today. Thanks for sharing this!

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[PMDVD]

Never saw them on YV we didn't have one in the 1950s. We saw all these films at the Rialto Cinema, York when I was a teenager! Al

[torgman]

Bela had a brouge?

[Gregg30]

Great stuff. I miss seeing these guys on TV. I grew up with them.