Bowery Boy (1940)

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.

Released Dec. 28, 1940 53 min None+

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Keywords: imdb.food-poisoning, tmdb.hospital, tmdb.bowery-boys, imdb.little-tough-guys, tmdb.food-poisoning, imdb.dead-end-kids, imdb.east-side-kids + 14 more, imdb.gang-leader, imdb.gang-member, imdb.racketeer, imdb.revenge-seeker, imdb.henchman, imdb.doctor, imdb.held-at-gunpoint, imdb.kidnapping, imdb.kidnapper, imdb.hostage, imdb.last-minute-rescue, imdb.hospital, imdb.bowery-boys, imdb.death-of-mother