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Here you go Ronald, Tony's piece from June 20th last year (2016) about the yet to be released documentary. Here is the 8 minute Trailer for the "upcoming" BOWERY RHAPSODY: THE RISE AND REDEMPTION OF HOLLYWOOD'S ORIGINAL 'BRAT PACK', as posted on YouTube, July 2, 2014 (From Nearly 2 years ago -...

Yes Ronald that WAS a great one. One of us up in here put that clip on last year and we all cracked up yet again over it. It's good in soooo many ways. So what do you think's going on with the documentary, Ronald?

Hey yous guys, can any of yous gimme a heads up on dose tree books Hollywood's Made To Order Punks? Are dey woith the dough dey're askin'? <_<

Hey Tony, the three up on Apple TV so far - Bowery Bombshell, The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters and Bowery to Bagdad are all in HD format and not for digital sale, just rental.:blink:

Hey gang, just a quick heads up. Just saw a few Bowery Boys films up on Apple TV's Movies, rentable for a whopping $3.99 fish each. They're all from the 48 films, no DNK, LTG or EEK, no 1937 Dead End. That documentary's gonna generate some interviews and renewed interest, to what degree remains...

Well Mr Handley, you got trough all 48 o' dese films, huh? Dat's good, you've reached da pineapple o' your career. Congrats! Glad you put Meet the Monsters at #1, it really IS that good. Your list, though, really does look like that of a diehard Stooges fan. Your taste seems to be more...

Well waddaya know. FINALLY!! And the current level of social media can really give this thing a huge boost into the mainstream where it should be. I hope it goes in depth into the these points: 1) Why New York City mattered so much then and how that relates to why it matters now. 2) Why...

Well Joe that was mighty unanimous of yous! I finally got to see Little Tough Guys in Society. Sheesh though. What a mess just to satisfy a trend, huh. But a very interesting look at attitudes toward and treatment of women a year before war breaks out in Europe, and a year before the New York...

The Mayor of Hell. Now that is one good movie. Did you know even way up in Canada parts of that film scared the initial screeners so much they had to cut loads of scenes out before letting it run in theaters? Some states complained and cut things out too. Most complained about the title and...

'It's usually Blackbeard that does the collecting.' My fav Clements line, delivered like a pro in that funny British accent! This is the only film where I didn't miss Leo at all. Huntzie carried it very well and Stanley and the Boys and the leading lady supported him superbly. I really like...

They do less and less these days Joe, but back in those days EVERYTHING fell under fair use unless you could afford a mouthpiece who said / worked it otherwise. Yeah Joe can't you just see her almost hang up the phone, then take a swing at him, then he goes 'Blocked it!' but then she takes her...

Now that Joe has started from the first film, Dead End, I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage people to contact producers to continue revivals of Sidney Kingsley's original play. There have been three revivals so far, the first in 1978 and the second in 1997 included Kingsley himself...

Man were you ever lucky to see that pilot Joe. I'm sure you enjoyed it because it had some good unfiltered references. I don't believe Ray was as 'poor' as you say Joe. He knew better, he was in the industry smack in the middle of a rip-off free-for-all with little or no legal protection for...

It would've been hard to put the Bowery Boys into one of those Hanna Barbera-ized cartoons, even if permissions were more forthcoming, because the content would've had to be so sanitized / watered down / filtered / censored as to take the whole point out if it in my opinion. The others were...

Gas Pump Girls, huh. Sheesh, I guess there are all sorts of ways to get introed to the Dead End Kids. I'll have a peek, though not on a full stomach, to see Huntzie and the others you mentioned. Huntzie was finicky about who he worked with, it didn't seem to be so much about the subject matter...

Great list Joe! Sure you don't want to include Newsboys Home? It's got David Gorcey and Billy Benedict in it...:popcorn:

Yeah Tony, all the good that ad did, regardless of what happened to Dean afterwards. There were lots of half hearted attempts at diffusing the problem by aiming at drivers without making laws with teeth or funding R&D of safety features/ attachments. This is the ugly side of the great post war...

Bernard used to yell at the execs at Monogram / Allied Artists about not getting enough on camera time, and Leo really respected his dad for that. Bernard was an old school pro from the stage, starting in Manhattan at a time when the movies were still new, unregulated and based in New York City...

Jail Busters is the third Boys film I keep on my iPad. Despite, as Joe says, this being the only film in the series with no women, I really like it. It's kind of eerie that Bernard died a week before this got released, and that it was on the same date that 46 years later would be seared into our...

Tanks for dat Pynx clip Joe! Sheesh what a ridiculous piece of rubbish THAT film must be, bet they never thought a film could get any worse till they actually did. The 'behind the stage grass' is as old as The film and vaudeville/ English music hall industry itself, the 'great equalizer' when...

Aww man you have GOT to see Dead End. I'm over here kicking myself over not finding out in time that they got a short revival of Kingsley's original play from 1935 going with a whole new cast of young people back in the late '90s. Kingsley was there crying and everything that people remembered...

They've got all 12 parts of Junior G-Men of the Air up on YouTube but man, do those things ever put me to sleep. Sheesh. I can't seem to get past the fourth episode. This definitely ain't the no TV age anymore. What I REALLY want to see are the ones you can't find like Mob Town, Newsboys and...

Well, Jim Manago's book Behind Sach: the Huntz Hall Story is out for about $30 on Amazon. Been out for about two weeks. The reviews I've waited on don't look to be from real fans yet so I'll just go on and buy it. Looks like folks are moving on with their material, not going on waiting to...

This is another of the three Boys films I've picked to put on my iPad. Hearing Lisa Davis put on that phony 'royal' accent, then slip up with that Brooklyn twang popping through is rich. Veola Vonn is smooth in that part, her movements are very worthy of 'being watched.' That may be an...

This is the film that got nominated for an Oscar by mistake, but it's still on the record as having been nominated even though the Monogram execs, Leo and Huntz bowed out gracefully. Len Getz thinks that bit Leo does about the money, 'When are we gonna get it?' deserved an Academy all by itself...

Those films 'Steel Guitar' and 'Phynx' are both digital rentals on Apple TV now I noticed. Unless I can get used DVDs super cheap I'll probably just rent 'em to see the cameos. :popcorn:

I chose Bowery to Baghdad as one of three Bowery Boys films to keep on my iPad. That one may not be my favorite, but it's got the moments I love to watch whenever I'm away from home, don't want to laugh out loud in public but feel like being deeply pleased with performances. Eric Blore is a...

Three things about this one, despite that old 'Tarzan' nonsense, got me interested. One is Leo's hilarious narration about 'dat bucket' and during that wild trip without the map. Another was those good looking men they got for 'Africans' , wouldn't be surprised if any of them made it through...

Thanks for that correction, Joe. Know what? I LOVED Stanley Clements in Hold That Hypnotist. He wasn't just underrated, he was under-appreciated and under cast. Like Darro, whom I like even more. So are we ever gonna get to see Mob Town, Mug Town and all that great Kids stuff not on DVD? Guys...