Lucky Losers is a 1950 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine starring The Bowery Boys.[1] The film was released on May 14, 1950, by Monogram Pictures and is the eighteenth film in the series. It had the working title of High Stakes.[2]
| Lucky Losers | |
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| Directed by | William Beaudine |
| Written by | Charles Marion Bert Lawrence |
| Produced by | Jan Grippo |
| Starring | Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell David Gorcey William Benedict |
| Cinematography | Marcel LePicard |
| Edited by | William Austin |
| Music by | Edward J. Kay |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editSlip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer.
The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattleman as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
Cast
editThe Bowery Boys
edit- Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
- Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
- William Benedict as Whitey
- David Gorcey as Chuck
- Buddy Gorman as Butch
Remaining cast
edit- Gabriel Dell as Gabe Moreno
- Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
- Hillary Brooke as Countess
- Lyle Talbot as Bruce McDermott
- Harry Cheshire as Chick
- Joe Turkel as Johnny Angelo
Notes
editProducer Jan Grippo was a professional magician brought to Hollywood to teach Veronica Lake to be convincing doing card tricks in This Gun for Hire.[3] He later became Leo Gorcey's agent and produced the Bowery Boys series. He performed the card and dice tricks seen in the film.[4]
Home media
editWarner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume One" on November 23, 2012.
References
edit- ^ Hayes, David (1982). The Films of the Bowery Boys. Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0806509310.
- ^ p.339 Marshall, Wendy L. William Beaudine: From Silents to Television Scarecrow Press, 2005
- ^ pp.98-99 Lenburg, Jeff Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake iUniverse, 2001
- ^ "Lucky Losers (1950) - IMDb". IMDb.
External links
edit- Lucky Losers at IMDb
- Lucky Losers at AllMovie
- Lucky Losers at the TCM Movie Database
- Lucky Losers at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films