Lucky Losers

Lucky Losers
Directed by	William Beaudine
Produced by	Jan Grippo
Written by	Charles Marion Bert Lawrence
Starring	Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell David Gorcey William Benedict
Music by	Edward J. Kay
Cinematography	Marcel LePicard
Edited by	William Austin
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release date	May 14, 1950 (1950-05-14)
Running time	69 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Lucky Losers is a 1950 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. 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.^[1]

Synopsis

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 gambling 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 cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.

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.

Cast

The Bowery Boys

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

Gabriel Dell as Gabe Moreno
Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
Hillary Brooke as Countess
Lyle Talbot as Bruce McDermott
Harry Cheshire as Chick

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.^[2] He later became Leo Gorcey's agent and produced the Bowery Boys series. He performed the card and dice tricks seen in the film.^[3]

References

↑ 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
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042693/fullcredits#cast

External links

Lucky Losers on IMDb

Preceded by Blonde Dynamite 1950	'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958	Succeeded by Triple Trouble 1950

The Bowery Boys

Films directed by William Beaudine
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1930s-40s	Torchy Gets Her Man (1938) Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939) She Done Him Right (1940) Four Shall Die (1940) Misbehaving Husbands (1940) Up Jumped the Devil (1941) Emergency Landing (1941) Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941) Federal Fugitives (1941) Desperate Cargo (1941) Mr. Celebrity (1941) The Miracle Kid (1941) Blonde Comet (1941) Duke of the Navy (1942) Broadway Big Shot (1942) Lucky Ghost (1942) Professor Creeps (1942) The Panther's Claw (1942) Men of San Quentin (1942) Gallant Lady (1942) One Thrilling Night (1942) Phantom Killer (1942) Foreign Agent (1942) The Living Ghost (1942) The Ape Man (1943) Clancy Street Boys (1943) Spotlight Scandals (1943) Ghosts on the Loose (1943) Here Comes Kelly (1943) Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943) Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943) What a Man! (1944) Voodoo Man (1944) Hot Rhythm (1944) Detective Kitty O'Day (1944) Follow the Leader (1944) Leave It to the Irish (1944) Oh, What a Night (1944) Shadow of Suspicion (1944) Bowery Champs (1944) Crazy Knights (1944) Mom and Dad (1945) Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945) Fashion Model (1945) Blonde Ransom (1945) Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945) Come Out Fighting (1945) Black Market Babies (1945) Girl on the Spot (1946) The Face of Marble (1946) One Exciting Week (1946) Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946) Below the Deadline (1946) Spook Busters (1946) Mr. Hex (1946) Philo Vance Returns (1947) Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947) Too Many Winners (1947) Killer at Large (1947) Gas House Kids Go West (1947) News Hounds (1947) Bowery Buckaroos (1947) The Chinese Ring (1947) Angels' Alley (1947) Jinx Money (1948) The Shanghai Chest (1948) The Golden Eye (1948) Smugglers' Cove (1948) Incident (1948) Kidnapped (1948) Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948) The Feathered Serpent (1948) The Lawton Story (1949) Tuna Clipper (1949) Forgotten Women (1949) Trail of the Yukon (1949) Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949) Tough Assignment (1949)
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