Bowery Boy (1940)

Bowery Boy

1940

Crime

Synopsis

Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.

Credits

Director

William Morgan

Cast

Dennis O'Keefe as Dr. Tom O'Hara

Helen Vinson as Peggy Winters

Jack Carr as Flops

Jimmy Lydon as Sock Dolan

Louise Campbell as Anne Cleary

Roger Pryor as J. R. Mason

William Benedict as (uncredited)

Crew