Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
Acting
Leo Gorcey's rapid-fire Brooklyn growl is an acquired taste.
Writing
Glimpy's malapropisms deserve their own dictionary.
Director
Wallace Fox
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The East Side Kids were a poverty row staple, churning out 22 films between 1940-1945 on budgets that wouldn't cover a modern car commercial.
Released during actual wartime, the film's casual xenophobia toward a French refugee hits differently knowing France was under Nazi occupation.
6.21940
5.01940
5.71940
6.01940
6.11941
5.81941
4.91941
6.61942
4.81942
5.21942
6.11942
7.01943
5.81943
4.21943
1943
5.81944
1944
7.01944
6.01945
5.01945
7.01945
US
