Director William Beaudine Part 2: The Bowery Boys (w/ Quentin Tarantino)
Pure Cinema Podcast
Brian Saur & Elric Kane
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Quentin Tarantino returns for part two of our look at director William Beaudine. This time, he turns his attention to Beaudine's Bowery Boys films, tracing their evolution from the Dead End Kids to the Little Tough Guys to the East Side Kids and finally to the Bowery Boys. A selection of these films will be screening this April at both the Video Archives Cinema Club and the New Beverly:
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| 0:00.0 | The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | My name's Brian Sauer. |
| 0:19.0 | I am here again with Mr. Quentin Tarantino. Hello, sir. Welcome |
| 0:22.3 | back. Hello, everybody. Piero's set about watchers. Screaming, salutations. So we are back, |
| 0:30.8 | as promised, uh, at the end of our William Bodine episode. We talked about, we talked a little |
| 0:35.2 | bit about the Bowery Boys in that episode, but we have a fully |
| 0:37.7 | dedicated round just for the Bowery Boys. So Quentin, let's talk about it. Let's talk about the history of these guys and Bodeens. I saw Bodeen did like 17 of them or something like that. Like, |
| 0:49.0 | I did more than that. Maybe. Maybe. Oh my God. Okay. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. What's the story with Barre? |
| 0:55.1 | Maybe it was 17. |
| 0:55.7 | I thought it was like more. |
| 0:56.7 | It seems like more. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.4 | So this is William Bodine Part 2. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.2 | Well, the thing about it was it is, he did so many of them. |
| 1:21.1 | And most of them are of such a high quality, that if you're doing the William Bodine filmography story, then you need to give the Bowery boys. Because that took up about a giant section of his film, of his filmography to actually kind of get the breath and |
| 1:31.9 | you and also just the same people that he worked with again and again and again yeah so uh i thought |
| 1:37.6 | it was best to make we pick five regular movies from his filmography and then just specialize on |
| 1:43.9 | Valerie boys movies all right so um so let me regular movies from this formography and then just specialize on Bowery Boys movies. |
| 1:45.8 | All right. |
| 1:46.2 | So let me give it just a little history of Leo Corse, Huntsville, and the many versions of the |
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