Lucky Losers

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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
  • May 14, 1950 (1950-05-14)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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Plot

Slip 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

The Bowery Boys

Remaining cast

Notes

Producer 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

Warner 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.

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References

  1. ↑ Hayes, David (1982). The Films of the Bowery Boys. Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press. ISBN   978-0806509310.
  2. ↑ p.339 Marshall, Wendy L. William Beaudine: From Silents to Television Scarecrow Press, 2005
  3. ↑ pp.98-99 Lenburg, Jeff Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake iUniverse, 2001
  4. ↑ "Lucky Losers (1950) - IMDb". IMDb .
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