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Block Busters

"Muggs must fight a new French kid who has just moved into the neighborhood."

1944

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Overview

Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.

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18 members

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Leo Gorcey

Muggs McGinnis

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Huntz Hall

Glimpy

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Gabriel Dell

Skinny

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William Benedict

Butch

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Fred Pressel

Jean

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Jimmy Strand

Danny

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Bill Chaney

Tobey

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Roberta Smith

Jinx

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Noah Beery

Judge

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Harry Langdon

Higgins

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Minerva Urecal

Amelia Rogiet

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Jack Gilman

Batter

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Kay Marvis

Irma

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Tom Herbert

Meyer

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Bernard Gorcey

Lippman

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Charles Murray Jr.

Umpire

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Jimmie Noone

Jimmy Noone

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Robert F. Hill

Doctor (uncredited)

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