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Little Tough Guy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Harold Young released in USA on 22 july 1938 with Billy Halop
Little Tough Guy (1938)
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Add to a movie listLittle 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.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Billy Halop
(Johnny Boylan)
Robert Wilcox
(Paul Wilson)
Huntz Hall
('Pig')
Gabriel Dell
(String)
Bernard Punsly
(Ape)
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