Gas House Kids in Hollywood

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Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Produced by Sam Baerwitz
Benjamin Stoloff
Written by Robert E. Kent
Starring Carl Switzer
Benny Bartlett
Rudy Wissler
Tommy Bond
Music by Albert Glasser
Cinematography James S. Brown Jr.
Edited by Alfred DeGaetano
W. Donn Hayes
Production
company
Distributed byProducers Releasing Corporation
Release date
August 23, 1947
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English

Gas House Kids in Hollywood is a 1947 American comedy crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Carl Switzer, Benny Bartlett and Rudy Wissler. It was the third and last in the series of Gas House Kids films, about a group of unruly boys from New York City [1] with Producers Releasing Corporation shutting in 1947.

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  1. AFI Catalog p.859-860

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