The Mighty McGurk

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.

Cast

Wallace Beery

as Roy 'Slag' McGurk

Dean Stockwell

as Nipper

Edward Arnold

as Mike Glenson

Aline MacMahon

as Mamie Steeple

Cameron Mitchell

as Johnny Burden

Dorothy Patrick

as Caroline Glenson

Morris Ankrum

as Fowles

Clinton Sundberg

as Flexter

Tom Kennedy

as Bruiser (uncredited)

Guy Stockwell

as Kid

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