Bowery Boy (1940)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Dennis O'Keefe

Dr. Tom O'Hara

Louise Campbell

Anne Cleary

Jimmy Lydon

Sock Dolan

Helen Vinson

Peggy Winters

Roger Pryor

J. R. Mason

Jack Carr

Flops

William Benedict

(uncredited)

Director & Crew

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