Little Tough Guy

Infobox Film
name = Little Tough Guy


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caption = "Little Tough Guy" Theatrical Re-Release Poster
director = Harold Young
producer = Ken Goldsmith
writer = Gilson Brown
Brenda Weisberg (story)
starring = Little Tough Guys
music = Charles Henderson
cinematography = Elwood Bredell
editing = Philip Cahn
distributor = Universal Studios
released = July 22, 1938
runtime = 86 min
country = USA
language = English
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followed_by = Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
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imdb_id = 0030378

"Little Tough Guy" is a 1938 Universal Studios film that starred several of the "Dead End Kids". Although re-release posters and the DVD release credit them as The Dead End Kids they did not go by that title in the on screen credits. It was in the follow up films that they began using the team name "The Little Tough Guys", and later "The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys". This was the first of several films and serials that Universal made using several of the Kids, whom they borrowed from Warner Bros.

Plot

Johnny Boylan's (Billy Halop) father was sentenced to death for a crime that he was never fully proven to have committed. He and his family move to a poorer section of the East Side in New York City. His sister, Kay (Helen Parrish) resorts to dancing in a burlesque theater after she is fired from her job. Her former fiance, Paul Wilson (Robert Wilcox), still cares for her and wants to help her, but she avoids him because of the shame she is feeling.

Johnny tries to enlist his fellow newsboy friends to help prove his father's innocence. They try to convince the judge, but are unsuccessful. In frustration, Johnny tosses a brick through the judge's car window, which begins his life of crime. He enlists his friend Pig (Huntz Hall) to help him rob a drugstore. They are subsequently chased by the police and hide out. However, the cops find them and Pig begs Johnny to surrender. Eventually Pig leaves the store and is shot and killed by the police. Johnny is captured and sent to reform school.

Chronology

*In terms of chronological order, this was released after the Dead End Kids film, "Crime School".

Cast

*Robert Wilcox as Paul Wilson
*Helen Parrish as Kay Boylan
*Marjorie Main as Mrs. Boylan
*Jackie Searl as Cyril Gerrard
*Peggy Stewart as Rita Belle
*Helen MacKellar as Mrs. Wanamaker
*Edward Pawley as Jim Boylan
*Olin Howland as Baxter
*Pat C. Flick as Peddler
*Billy Halop as Johnny Boylan
*Huntz Hall as 'Pig'
*Gabriel Dell as String
*Bernard Punsly as Ape
*Hal E. Chester as Dopey (credited as Hally Chester)
*David Gorcey as Sniper

DVD Release

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*imdb title|id=0030378|title=Little Tough Guy