Bowery Boy (1940)

Dr. Tom OHara takes over a public clinic in New Yorks desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Toms interference in moving Socks kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mothers 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 Socks brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. OHara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Masons contamination of hospital food supplies. Director: William Morgan. Writers: Robert Chapin, Samuel Fuller (story), Harry Kronman, Eugene Solow, Sidney Sutherland (story). Stars: Dennis OKeefe, Louise Campbell, Jimmy Lydon, Helen Vinson, Roger Pryor, Paul Hurst, Edward Gargan, Selmer Jackson, Howard Hickman, John Kelly, Frederick Burton, Jack Carr.