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Mob Town Reviews

  • 1941
  • 0 hr 59 mins
  • Drama
  • NR
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Crime-prevention melodrama in which a policeman (Dick Foran) tries to reform young gang members before they become adult criminals. Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Anne Gwynne, Bernard Punsly, Samuel S. Hinds, Darryl Hickman, Paul Fix. Suspenseful. William Nigh directed.

One of the worst entries in the Bowery Boys series, MOB TOWN has a kind-hearted cop (Foran) trying to reform the young thugs, but running into an obstacle with Halop. It turns out that Foran is the copper who sent Halop's brother up the river. Halop associates with a gang of hoodlums for a while, but eventually comes back to the fold. The film offers a great deal of exposition, but never seems to get anywhere, and before you know it (but not soon enough) the end credits pop up.