The Bowery Boys: Volume Two - DVD

Comedy fans will love this 83 minute tribute to The Bowery Boys including Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the whole gang. We'll look back at the films and the lives of the talented actors who were known as the Dead End Kids, The Tough Little Guys and finally The Bowery Boys. See interviews of cast members and supporting actors, directors and writers as well as out-takes, bloopers, stills and clips.

The greatest variety acts of the past -- humorists, bands, vaudevillians, dramatists, dancers and more -- return for a second collection of the earliest of the venerable Vitaphone sound shorts. Entertainers from coast to coast, from stage and screen, from the heights of Brooklyn to the valleys of Hollywood, all shared the spotlight as cinema learned to play with sound. Nestled in among 35 Jazz Age gems to be found on this 2-Disc collect

From Dead Ends to the East Side and finally landing in Louie's Sweet Shop in the heart of the Bowery (3rd and Canal, natch!), there was no stopping these Boys! When understudy Leo Gorcey joined the ensemble of teen thespians on stage for the Broadway hit "Dead End", Hollywood soon followed with William Wyler taking the troupe in toto for 1937's film version. Personifying the grit and heart of the kid gangs sprouting up in city slums, th