Bowery Blitzkrieg (B&W) |  | Studio: Genius Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 317,983
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Region: 1
UPC: 796019556491
EAN: 0796019556491
ASIN: B0006B978E
Release Date: January 1, 2004
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City Life in the Bowery February 9, 2010
Acute Observer (Jersey Shore USA)
Bowery Blitzkrieg
The film begins with a man falling out of a store door. Muggs is a local big shot. Monk manipulates Danny with gossip to start a fight. The talk at the dinner table tells about their lives. Monk gets Danny to drive his car. Muggs is in the Reform School, but he can leave for a new home. Muggs trains for his fight and wins. The ability to fix a fight can make money for professional gamblers. [Like insider trading on Wall Street.] Muggs moves out, Danny is warned about Monk. Will they try to pay Muggs to take a dive?
Danny gets in trouble following Monk, and winds up in a hospital. The radio carries the fight. Can Muggs win after donating blood? Yes, but he has a problem. There will be a happy ending for the good guys.
This movie is more serious than the other films that followed it. The series became a sort of soap opera that told of the adventures of a small group of city youth. Its popularity measured the interests of America in the 1940s. It was never brought to radio or television.
The Bowery district was destroyed by "urban renewal". Its old neighborhood and businesses serviced the docks along the East River. Foley Square replaced the historic Five Points neighborhood. These changes happened in other cities, and eliminated the people and the small businesses in historic neighborhoods.
BAD PLATINUM DISC!!!!! June 19, 2009
larryj1 (AZ, USA)
While the Platinum Disc DVD quality is probably better than others for Bowery Blitzkrieg, it is a severly edited print. There is a 5 minute chunk missing from the film about 1/3 of the way through. This basically renders the disc worthless. Platinum lists the orignal running time of 62 minutes, but it is shorter than that. I've seen the missing footage on a 50 movie pack, but there were different scenes edited out on that one. I haven't seen the Alpha disc. This was also an Astor Pictures re-issue. The East Side Kids films desperately need someone to take an interest in putting out decent copies of them.
Somewhat Below East Side Standards. March 22, 2007
rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California)
This East Side Kids melodrama introduces Huntz Hall, one of the original Dead End boys, to this series, and quaintly casts Keye Luke, Charlie Chan's "Number One Son" as a pool hall manager (named Clancy!), but each performer plays only a small role in this story of Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) and his gang. Released before the U.S. entry into WWII (ergo the Teutonic title), the film is devoid of the customary wartime propaganda that the series featured, but it is also shorn of the snappy ad libbing that caught the Gotham flavour of most of these affairs, and we must settle for a rapidly moving but largely uninvolving account of Muggs' decision to go straight amidst the usual background of the fight game and gangsters.
Leo Gorcey must fight in the ring. Huntz Hall joins gang. March 19, 2004
James McDonald (Southern California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Huntz Hall now joins the East Side Kids, who was over with Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly and Gabriel Dell as the Dead End Kids helping the Little Tough Guys and still will until 1943.
Well as you can see Leo Gorcey with Huntz Hall, Sammy Morrison, Donald Haines and David Gorcey are still up to no good. Leo hits "Monk" (Bobby Stone) and then puts shoe polish on his nose. Policeman Tom decides to stop them and reminds the gang of reform school. He wants to talk to the kids in the Pool Hall. In the Pool Hall is Clancy (played by Keye Luke of Charlie Chan film series, Kung Fu tv series, 1972-75,86 as "Master Po"). Later, Monk tells Bobby Jordan a lie that Leo had said something about his sister. Monk's plan works and Leo and Bobby fist fight. The police show up and the kids make a run for it. Leo ges caught. Policeman Tom talks Leo into fighting in the ring for the Golden Gloves. Can Leo and Bobby ever be friends again? Bobby ends up in the hospital and Leo gives him a special gift of life. In the next film, the boys meet Bela Lugosi and have to chase some spooks in SPOOKS RUN WILD (1941).
 Gotham/Alpha DVD is bad, look for the Platinum Disc DVD May 26, 2003
Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you are a Bowery Boys - East Side Kids fan, you know these low budget dramadies are entertaining. Unfortunately, the DVD issued by Gotham Distributors/Alpha Video is almost unwatchable. A Washed out picture and distorted soundtrack take away from the enjoyment of this movie.
HOWEVER, if you can find the PLATINUM DISC CORPORATION DVD, you will enjoy a sharp clear picture with excellent contrast and a crisp clear soundtrack worthy of DVD.
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