Bowery Boy (1940)
Overview
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.
Cast
Dennis O'Keefe
Dr. Tom O'Hara
Louise Campbell
Anne Cleary
Jimmy Lydon
Sock Dolan
Helen Vinson
Peggy Winters
Roger Pryor
J. R. Mason
William Benedict
(uncredited)
