Poverty Row Classics: East Side Kids / That Gang of Mine Blu-ray

VCI Home Entertainment is preparing a second volume of its Poverty Row Classics series, which is scheduled to arrive on the market on May 12.

EAST SIDE KIDS (1940)

East Side Kids (1940) is a crime drama about a former street kid who becomes a police officer and tries to steer neighborhood boys away from a life of crime. Officer Pat O'Day starts a boys' police club to mentor troubled kids, including Danny Dolan, whose brother has been sentenced to death for a murder he may not have committed.

Starring: Leon Ames, Dennis Moore, Joyce Bryant, Hal E. Chester, Harris Berger, Frankie Burke, Vince Barnett, Dave O'Brien, Ted Adams, Maxine Leslie, Robert Fiske, Jack Edwards, Jim Farley, Stephen Chase, Fred Hoose, Donald Haines, Eric Burtis, Edwin Brian, Sam Edwards, Frank Yaconelli.

THAT GANG OF MINE (1940)

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.

Starring: Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Clarence Muse, Dave O'Brien, Joyce Bryant, Ernest Morrison, Milton Kibbee, David Gorcey