Keep 'em Slugging (1943)
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an offshoot of Warner Bros.' "Dead End Kids" films. This time around, the kids decide to mend their troublemaking ways and get real jobs. Tommy (Bobby Jordan) is hired by the department store where his sister Sheila (Evelyn Ankers) is already employed. Frank (Frank Albertson), Tommy's supervisor, is mixed up with a gang of hijackers. When Tommy refuses to join the crooks, Frank frames the kid on a robbery rap. With the help of fellow Little Tough Guys Pig (Huntz Hall), String (Gabriel Dell) and Ape (Norman Abbott, nephew of comedian Bud Abbott), Tommy not only proves his innocence, but gives the criminals a real soaking. By the time Keep 'Em Slugging was released, Huntz Hall and Gabriel Dell were already repeating their antics in Monogram's "East Side Kids" flicks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Huntz Hall - Pig
- Gabriel Dell - String
- Evelyn Ankers - Sheila
- Frank Albertson - Frank
- Shemp Howard - Binky
- Mary Gordon - Mrs. Banning
- Joan Marsh - Lela
- Wade Boteler - Police Sergeant
- Dick Chandlee - Sammy
- Caroline Cooke - Languid Customer
- Paul McVey - Mr. Meecham
- Rex Lease
- Milt Kibbee - McGann
- Arthur Hoyt - Mr. Quink
- William Gould - 1st Detective
- Peter Michael - Young Lover
- Jack C. Smith - Policeman
- Anthony Warde
- Minerva Urecal - Miss Billings
- Janet Shaw - Young Girl
- Robert Paige - Stars in Moviehouse Film
- Dead End Kids
- David Durand - Bingo
- Ben Erway - Sharkey
- Jane Frazee
- Bobby Jordan - Tommy
- Norman Abbott - Ape
- Elyse Knox - Suzanne
- Don Porter - Jerry
- Samuel S. Hinds - Mr. Carruthers
- Milburn Stone - Duke Rodman
- Ernie S. Adams - Dugan
- Roy Brent - Waiter
- Cliff Clark - Macklin
- Joseph Crehan - Detective-Sergeant
- Mira McKinney - Customer
- Joseph King - Scott
- Lew Kelly - Jailer
- Harry Holman - Fat Man
- Johnny Walsh - 1st Student
- Robert E. Hill
- Frank O'Connor - 2nd Detective
- Dorothy Vaughan - Mrs. Meegan
- Bob Spencer - Mike
- Joey Ray - Thug
- Howard Mitchell - Personnel Manager
- Jimmie Dodd - Shorty
- Fern Emmett - Lady In "Poiple"
- Alice Fleming - Matron
- Director(s):
- William Christy Cabanne
- Writer(s):
- Brenda Weisberg
- Producer(s):
- Ben Pivar
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