Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader

FOLLOW 'EM FOR FUN...and Thrills Aplenty While the Kids Put a Hoodoo on the Hoodlums!

1944 · 65 min · ★ 3.8 · Action, Drama, Crime, Comedy, Adventure

Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.

Directed by William Beaudine · Written by Beryl Sachs

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Leo Gorcey Muggs McGinnis
Huntz Hall Glimpy Freedhoff
Gabriel Dell W.W. "Fingers" Belmont
Joan Marsh Milly McGinnis
Jack La Rue Larry
Bryant Washburn Colonel
William Benedict Spider O'Brien
David Durand Danny
Bobby Stone Speed
Jimmy Strand Dave
Buddy Gorman Skinny Bogerty
Gene Austin

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