Mug Town (1942)
Director:
Ray TaylorWriters:
Brenda Weisberg (screenplay), Lewis Amster (screenplay)Stars:
Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Grace McDonaldIn this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly ill young boy while they stay in a rural boarding house. The lad tries hard to keep up with the lads as they sneak into a train yard and begin playing amongst the box cars. Unfortuantely, when a railroad detective shows up, the sick boy is killed while trying to get away. The guilt-stricken kids attempt to tell the dead boy's mother, but she is too kind to hear them. Instead she takes the kids into her home. Tommy, the lead boy, manages to get a job as a gas jockey, but things go wrong when he entangles himself with racketeers. Eventually he is caught and taken to court where the mother of the dead child speaks movingly on Tommy's behalf. Just after he is acquitted, word of Pearl Harbor reaches them and the Dead End Kids decide to join the army.
Here is the link to the film at the Internet Movie database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036176/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
