Product Details

• Actors: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Tom Brown
• Directors: Wallace Fox
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Timeless Multimedia
• VHS Release Date: August 29, 1994
• Run Time: 62 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303241387
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #600,049 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars lets get duped, October 25, 2003

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Richard Rivera (Pocono Summit, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: East Side Kids - Let's Get Tough! (DVD)

This edition of Alpha videos Lets get Tough is an abomination. Save your money until some other company decides to do it right.Unviewable.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An artifact of its era, November 19, 2005

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yaremar (Pilsen, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: East Side Kids - Let's Get Tough! (DVD)

After the Dead End Kids and before the Bowery Boys, there were the East Side Kids: Leo "Muggs" Gorcey, Huntz "Glimpy" Hall, and Bobby "Danny" Jordan-along with Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison as "Scruno," the token black member of the gang-starred in a series of rough-and-tumble action-comedies set in New York's Lower East Side (but actually shot at the lowly Monogram Pictures studio in Hollywood) that combined the dramatics of the Dead End films with the knockabout slapstick of the Bowery epics. These cheaply produced, quickly made films (in which much of the dialogue was improvised) proved popular with moviegoers and were run repeatedly on local TV stations for years.

If nothing else, the East Side Kids movies were a product of their era, which is why, in these Politically Correct times, you're not likely to see LET'S GET TOUGH! (1942) turn up on television anytime soon. In this flag-waving World War II entry, the East Side Kids tangle with a Japanese spy ring that has ties to Nazi infiltrators. As you might expect, the racial epithets fly fast and free, though perhaps no moreso than any other patriotic war-themed production of the '40s.

This Alpha Video edition is typical of many of the East Side Kids movies available on DVD: transferred from a used 16mm print (splices, scratches), with scenes edited out (for TV?). There's no "Digital Restoration" going on here.

The East Side Kids movies are, at best, a pleasant diversion, though they were never as funny as the later Bowery Boys efforts. LET'S GET TOUGH! is not one of the better ESK entries; fans of this team will want to see it, but it's of little interest to anyone else.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Warning: Anti Japanese Wartime Film, March 3, 2005

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Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: East Side Kids - Let's Get Tough! (DVD)

While the film used to make this DVD has lines and splices, it is sharp and clear. When you see the story content you will understand why.
Made during WWII, the boys talk about killing Japanese. This film was pulled from Television syndication a while back, so the only original prints around are a bit old.

In comparison, try to find a copy of the 3 STOOGES anti-Japanese film "THE YOKES ON ME". Japanese owned Columbia will not release that through their Sony DVD division.

Take this film in its historic context and watch a rare piece of 1940's B-Hollywood influenced by the war.