Let's Get Tough!

(1942)

62 minutes.

Directed by Wallace Fox

Cast: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan and Huntz Hall and the East Side Kids

Film / Comedy / Crime / Drama

The East Side Kids tackle espionage, sabotage, murder and mayhem as they get tough on the enemy at the start of World War II. Outraged by the attack on Pearl Harbor , Muggs, Danny, and the rest of their gang want to enlist. Turned away because of their age, they take out their frustration by harassing an Asian shopkeeper. When the shopkeeper is found dead soon afterward, the boys learn that he was Chinese, not Japanese. Determined to atone for their behavior, the gang stumbles across evidence that a real group of Japanese spies is operating in the area, and they become determined to expose them.