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Directed by William BeaudineOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Comedy-dramaActors Cullen Landis,
Patsy Ruth Miller,
Bert Woodruff,
George C. Pearce,
Raymond Cannon,
Gus LeonardUn jeune homme d'une famille aisée aime parcourir la ville au volant de sa voiture ; il s'amuse à distancer la police qui le poursuit, bien qu'il soit généralement rattrapé. Après son dernier incident, son père l'avertit de cesser ce jeu, et le jeune homme promet de se calmer. Cependant, il cède bientôt à ses anciennes habitudes. Mais cette fois, en tentant de fuir deux policiers à moto, il a un accident. Pensant qu'il a tué un des policiers, il fuit en ville et se retrouve sans le sou, dans une petite ville à plusieurs kilomètres de là. Bientôt, il rencontre une jeune fille dont il tombe amoureux, qui s'avère être la fille du chef de la police locale., 1h20
Directed by William BeaudineOrigin United-kingdomGenres DramaActors Paul Graetz,
Violet Farebrother,
Chili Bouchier,
Barry Livesey,
Ralph Truman,
Kenneth VilliersRating69%
Jake Cohen, the owner of a department store (Graetz), goes on the road, and leaves it under the control of his children, only to have to return when they fight with each other on the eve of a worker's strike., 1h9
Directed by William BeaudineOrigin USAGenres ComedyActors Leo Gorcey,
Huntz Hall,
Gabriel Dell,
David Gorcey,
William Benedict,
Buddy GormanRating61%
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., 1h7
Directed by William BeaudineOrigin USAGenres ComedyActors Leo Gorcey,
Huntz Hall,
Gabriel Dell,
David Gorcey,
William Benedict,
Buddy GormanRating65%
Sach develops an uncanny ability to sing, after having his tonsils removed, and Slip convinces Louie to turn his sweet shop into a night club, The Bowery Palace, after unsuccessfully trying to get Sach a singing job at a neighboring club, The Rio Cabana., 1h6
Directed by William BeaudineOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
CrimeActors Leo Gorcey,
Huntz Hall,
Gabriel Dell,
David Gorcey,
William Benedict,
Buddy GormanRating61%
Slip suggests that Louie take a vacation and hand over the responsibilities of the sweet shop to the boys. Louie reluctantly agrees and takes his wife to Coney Island. The boys decide to turn his sweet shop into an escort service and give the place a makeover. Meanwhile Gabe, who works as a messenger for a bank, has gotten himself into trouble. He had $5,000 of the bank's money stolen from him and local gangsters threaten to frame him for the theft unless he agrees to get the bank vault combination for them. He gives them the combination and the gangsters take over the sweet shop from Sach, who is minding it while Slip and the rest of the boys are out serving as escorts. Their goal is to dig from the sweet shop to the bank, and Sach allows them to after they convince him that they are government men looking for uranium. Eventually Slip, Louie, and the rest of the boys wind up back at the sweet shop and are pressed into service. Gabe goes to the police to tell the whole story, and as soon as he does, the gangsters dig through the police station floor (which is situated behind the bank) and are captured. Louie is temporarily pleased as Sach did find uranium under his store, but in the end it is discovered that he only owns the land., 1h6
Directed by William BeaudineOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
ActionActors Leo Gorcey,
Huntz Hall,
Gabriel Dell,
David Gorcey,
William Benedict,
Paul HarveyRating62%
Young amateur sleuth Terence "Slip" Mahoney works cleaning offices in a New York highrise building when he comes across a letter addressed to Terence Mahoney, Esquire. Believing the letter is meant for him, he opens and reads it. The letter tells of an inheritance waiting for him. A wealthy uncle living in a large house on Long Island has left him a fortune. He is expected at Mahoney Manor immediately.Directed by William BeaudineOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
CrimeActors Roland Winters,
Victor Sen Yung,
Mantan Moreland,
Tristram "Tris" Coffin,
Russell Hicks,
Pierre WatkinRating60%
As Victor Armstrong visits his uncle, Judge Wesley Armstrong in San Francisco, he is knocked unconscious by an unknown attacker, and when he wakes up he finds out his uncle has been stabbed to death. The judge's private secretary, Phyllis Powers, finds the two men and calls the police to the scene. When Victor wakes up he has the knife that stabbed his uncle in his hand.