The Bowery Boys are Back in Summer-Long TCM Movie Fest
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Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will bring the Bowery Boys back to the screen with a 48-film The Bowery Boys of Summer festival, beginning with an all-night marathon on the first day of summer, June 21, and continuing with triple-features beginning at noon every Sunday through September 23. The Bowery Boys of Summer will feature the Bowery Boys series of motion pictures, produced between 1946 and 1958, with the clowning of a recurring cast headed by Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and Gabriel Dell. The overgrown adolescentsí adventures include fighting off crooks, spies and monsters while pursuing a series of hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes.
The Bowery Boys started out as the Dead End Kids, playing juvenile delinquents in the hit Broadway drama Dead End in 1935. They followed the play to Hollywood in 1937, then moved to Warner Bros. for Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. After a series of similar films about teenagers caught between crime and the law, the actors moved to other studios for such series as the Little Tough Guys at Universal and the East Side Kids at Monogram.
In 1946, Leo Gorcey revamped the series to create the Bowery Boys, in which he starred as ringleader Slip Mahoney, with Huntz Hall as his dim-witted best friend, Satch Jones. The movies quickly built a following with their rowdy humor and fast-paced action.
"For people of my generation, Sunday afternoon matinees of Bowery Boys movies were a tradition,î says Tom Karsch, senior vice president and general manager, TCM. ìWeíre pleased to introduce them to a new generation of viewers, and bring them back to those who grew up with them.î
Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 32 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. that presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from the ë20s through the ë80s, commercial-free and without interruption. For more information, please visit the TCM website at (http://TCM.turner.com).