Movies by William Beaudine

Blonde Dynamite

Blonde Dynamite

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.

Bowery Battalion

Bowery Battalion

Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

Crazy Over Horses

Crazy Over Horses

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers

Penrod and Sam

Penrod and Sam

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.

Ghosts on the Loose

Ghosts on the Loose

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Lucky Ghost

Lucky Ghost

An all-black horror comedy starring Mantan Moreland and sometimes partner (and straight man) F.E. Miller, Lucky Ghost is amusing low-brow fare that exploits the more base, stereotypical elements of old-time black life (chicken thievin', gamblin', runnin' from ghosteses) for laughs -- sort of like the BET of its day. Mantan and Miller win a house-cum-casino in a craps game, only to discover that the deceased former owners aren't too pleased that their old home is being used for "jitterbugging, jiving, and hullaballooing". I hate hullaballooin...

Don't Gamble with Strangers

Don't Gamble with Strangers

Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.

Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader

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 c...

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.

Come Out Fighting

Come Out Fighting

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.

Yukon Vengeance

Yukon Vengeance

In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers.

What'll We Do with Uncle?

What'll We Do with Uncle?

Artist Henry is wildly jealous of his girl Flossie so when he sees her in the arms of another man he overreacts and tries to end it all in a variety of over the top ways. Even when Flossie explains he still tries to end it all until word comes that his uncle has died and left him a million.

Ten Who Dared

Ten Who Dared

The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

The first half is a salute to John Wesley Powell, the first man to explore the Colorado River. Walt Disney presents a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Ten Who Dared on the same waters. Then the True-Life Adventure Featurette: Bear Country is shown.

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

The Jewish Nate Cohen and the Irish-Catholic Patrick Kelly are business partners who are constantly fighting. When they find out that Nate's daughter Sadye and Patrick's son Pat Jr. are getting married in Paris, the two and their wives take an ocean liner to France to stop the marriage. When they get there, they find that the situation has radically changed, and not for the better.

Here Come the Marines

Here Come the Marines

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.

Too Many Winners

Too Many Winners

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.

No Holds Barred

No Holds Barred

One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.

Killer at Large

Killer at Large

Two newspaper reporters become involved with another killing while investigating a murder, which leads to the involvement of the girl reporter's father.