Block Busters (1944)
Directed by Wallace W. Fox
Genres - Comedy | Run Time - 60 min. | Countries - USA |Share on
Synopsis by Hal Erickson
A lesser East Side Kids effort, Block Busters looks more like an elongated 2-reel comedy than a 6-reel feature. This time, Muggs (Leo Gorcey), Glimpy (Huntz Hall) and the rest of the Kids set about to "Americanize" affable young French refugee Jean Rogers (Frederick Pressel). But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return. Eventually, the Kids patch things up with Jean and play a championship game on behalf of their sick friend Tobby (Bill Chaney). Featured in the cast are Leo Gorcey's then-wive Kay Marvis, his father Bernard Gorcey (in a dry run for his Bowery Boys character Louie Dumbrowski), and, sadly, former comedy great Harry Langdon, wasted in a minor role as an undertaker.
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allegiance, baseball, battleship, child, conflict, escapades, France, gangster, ghost, group, killing, new-kid-in-town, passenger, shipwreck, spoiled, sports, teacher, violence
