Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Leo Gorcey | ... | Terence 'Slip' Mahoney | |
Huntz Hall | ... | Sach 'Turkey' Horace Debussy Jones | |
Gabriel Dell | ... | Ricky Moreno | |
William 'Billy' Benedict | ... | Whitey (as Billy Benedict) | |
David Gorcey | ... | Chuck | |
Frankie Darro | ... | Jimmy | |
Nestor Paiva | ... | Tony 'Piggy' Locarno | |
Rosemary La Planche | ... | Daisy Harris | |
Geneva Gray | ... | Josie O'Neill | |
Benny Bartlett | ... | Harry 'Jag' Harmon (as Bennie Bartlett) | |
John Eldredge | ... | Asst. Dist. Atty. John Willis | |
Nelson Leigh | ... | Father O'Hanlon | |
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Thomas Menzies | ... | Boomer O'Neill (as Tommy Menzies) |
Mary Gordon | ... | Mrs. Mamie Mahoney | |
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Dick Paxton | ... | Jockey Burns (as Richard Paxton) |
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring. While trying to help Jimmy get out of the gang, Slip is implicated in a warehouse break-in that was actually committed by Jimmy and the auto theft ring. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
As if the world did not have enough troubles, the English language was sent back a few generations as Leo Gorcey acquired an understudy in diction and grammar in Angels' Alley. Other than that, this film takes a more serious tone than most of the Bowery Boys features.
Young Thomas Menzies has adopted Gorcey as a hero and has taken to wearing the creased old fedora like him and using the big words without quite knowing the meaning. It's the best thing about Angels' Alley.
Another actor who played troubled city kids, Frankie Darro, plays Leo Gorcey's cousin just released from prison. Immediately he gets tied up with the local gangster Nestor Paiva. It's up to the Bowery Boys to get the whole situation straightened.
This film did miss Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dombrowski, proprietor of Louie's sweetshop and hangout for Leo, Huntz Hall and the rest. Nice film, but not in the usual Bowery Boys spirit.