A film review from the "Motion Picture Daily" noted that in "Clancy Street Boys" the film was a variation from the previous series of starting the film with the boys on the right side of the law and keeping them there throughout the picture. Judy is played by Leo Gorcey's future wife, Amelita Ward. Gabriel Dell, Stanley Clements, Bobby Stone, and Dave Durand are absent from this film. With Clement's usual gang name of "Stash" taken by Dick Chandlee. Bennie Bartlett's second and last East Side Kids film. He would later rejoin the group when they became The Bowery Boys. The photo in the film of Muggs' father is Leo Gorcey's real father, Bernard, who would play Louie in the Bowery Boys series. Bernard also had a small appearance in the film as a liquor store owner in his first film of the series.