Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Oct 29, 1943

1h 3m

★ 0.0

From Police Blotter To Social Register In 10 Easy Lessons!

Overview

Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

Banner Productions

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Cast

Muggs McGinnis

Leo Gorcey

Glimpy Freedhoff

Huntz Hall

Dips Nolan

Gabriel Dell

Pinky

William Benedict

Brenda Murray

Joan Marsh

Speed

Bobby Stone

Skinny

Buddy Gorman

Danny

David Durand

Rocky

Jimmy Strand

Maisie O'Donnell

Patsy Moran

Eddie Gribbon

Halliwell Hobbes

The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.

6.0

Pride of the Bowery

Dec 15, 1940

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. 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.

6.3

Kid Dynamite

Feb 5, 1943

The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.

5.8

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Aug 1, 1941

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

5.0

Boys of the City

Jul 15, 1940

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

5.8

Flying Wild

Mar 10, 1941

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.

5.5

That Gang of Mine

Sep 23, 1940

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.

4.2

Ghosts on the Loose

Jul 30, 1943

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

2.7

Follow the Leader

Jun 3, 1944

Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.

0.0

Block Busters

Jul 22, 1944

Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.

7.0

Bowery Champs

Nov 25, 1944

Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate.

7.0

Come Out Fighting

Sep 29, 1945

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.

6.1

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

Nov 20, 1942

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.

5.0

Mr. Muggs Rides Again

Jul 15, 1945

After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.

4.8

Let's Get Tough

May 29, 1942

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead.

5.2

Smart Alecks

Aug 7, 1942

Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the money with them. Complications ensue when the crook that Danny helped capture escapes from jail and comes looking for him.

5.8

Million Dollar Kid

Feb 28, 1944

In ridding the area of muggers, the East Side Boys acquire a wealthy benefactor whose privileged son, unbeknownst to him, has fallen in with thugs.

6.0

Docks of New York

Feb 24, 1945

The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.