Pride of the Bowery is a black-and-white 1941 film and the fourth installment in the East Side Kids

East Side Kids

The East Side Kids were characters in a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945. Many of them were originally part of The Dead End Kids and The Little Tough Guys, and several of them later became members of The Bowery Boys....

 series. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Sam Katzman

Sam Katzman

Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Born into a poor Jewish family, Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry...

. It was released by Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, most on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram is considered a leader among the smaller studios sometimes referred to...

 on January 31, 1941.

Synopsis

Muggs (Leo Gorcey

Leo Gorcey

Leo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo...

) is tricked into joining the Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D...

 camp by Danny (Bobby Jordan

Bobby Jordan

Robert "Bobby" Jordan was an American actor, born in Harrison, New York, most notable for being a member of the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.-Early life and career:...

) in order to get in shape as a boxer. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.

Production

Pride of the Bowery was released in the United Kingdom under the title Here We Go Again which was the final line of the film.

Cast and characters

• Muggs McGinnis- Leo Gorcey
  Leo Gorcey
  Leo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo...
  
  
• Danny Graham- Bobby Jordan
  Bobby Jordan
  Robert "Bobby" Jordan was an American actor, born in Harrison, New York, most notable for being a member of the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Allen- Kenneth Howell
• Elaine White- Mary Ainslee
  Mary Ainslee
  Mary Ainslee was an American film actress. She appeared in approximately 15 films between 1939 and 1952.Ainslee appeared in several Three Stooges films such as I'll Never Heil Again, In the Sweet Pie and Pie, Hokus Pokus, and He Cooked His Goose.In the mid-1980s, she suffered a stroke and never...
  
  
• Willie- Bobby Stone
• Skinny- Donald Haines
  Donald Haines
  Donald Haines was an American child actor who had recurring appearances in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1929 to 1933.-Our Gang:...
  
  
• Peewee- David Gorcey
  David Gorcey
  David Gorcey was an American actor and comedian best known as being a member of the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. He was the younger brother of Dead End Kids member Leo Gorcey.-Career:...
  
  
• Scruno- Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison
• Captain Jim White- Kenneth Harlan
  Kenneth Harlan
  Kenneth Harlan was an American leading man of the silent film era, playing mostly romantic leads or adventurer types.-Career:...
  
  
• Thumb Butte Ranger- Nick Stuart
• Camp Doctor- Lloyd Ingraham

Crew

• Director: Joseph H. Lewis
• Writer: William Lively
• Story: Steven Clensos
• Producer: Sam Katzman
  Sam Katzman
  Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Born into a poor Jewish family, Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry...
  
  
• Original Music: Johnny Lange
  Johnny Lange
  Johnny Lange was a songwriter, author and publisher. He was educated in a Philadelphia high school. He joined the music staff at film studios in 1937 and resumed his film music career in 1946 and 1947. He also wrote special material for night club singers, and the "Ice Capades of 1950"...
  
  , Lew Porter
  Lew Porter
  Lew Porter was an American composer and songwriter, contributing to the soundtrack of 72 films....
  
  
• Cinematography: Robert E. Cline
• Editor: Robert Golden
• Set Decoration: Fred Preble
• Production Management: Robert Emmett Tansey
• Second Unit Director/Assistant Director: Arthur Hammond, Herman Pett
• Sound Recordist: Glen Glenn
  Glen Glenn Sound
  Glen Glenn Sound was an audio post production company.The company was founded by Glen R. Glenn in 1936 and provided creative audio services to the television and film industry for five decades....