In this debut from the East Side Kids, the gang teams up with Detective O'Day (Leon Ames) to help get Danny's brother off a murder charge. But they'll have to catch the real killer, a gang leader called "Mileaway" (Dennis Moore) because he always seems to be "a mile away" whenever a crime is committed! Ironically, none of the actors who made up the eventual East Side Kids gang would appear until the next film in the series.