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Bowery Bombshell is a film of genre Comedy directed by Phil Karlson released in USA on 20 july 1946 with Leo Gorcey
Bowery Bombshell (1946)
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Add to a movie listBowery Bombshell is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. It is the third film in the series.
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Sweet Shop owner Louie needs to raise $300. The Boys try to sell their car to raise the money, but are unable to because the car falls apart when they try to show it to a prospective buyer. They decide to go to the bank and take a loan out on it, but just as they arrive the bank is robbed. The robbers bump into them and drop the bag full of the stolen money. As Sach picks up the bag to return it to the robber, Cathy, a photographer, takes his photo.Actors
Leo Gorcey
(Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney)
Huntz Hall
(Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones)
Bobby Jordan
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William Benedict
(Whitey)
Sheldon Leonard
(Ace Deuce Baker)
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, 1h4Directed by Phil Karlson
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
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Rating61%
Slip Mahoney has trouble keeping a job. Each one he finds leads to an altercation and he loses it, disappointing his sister whom he lives with. Eventually Sach helps him obtain a job with the District Attorney where he finds some success. Through a series of events, Slip and Sach help capture several notorious gangsters, including one that was about to flee the country with his sister.
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, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
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Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey
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The boys are involved in an altercation with a vegetable vendor and are saved by Father Donovan who convinces the policeman to let them go. He uses that to guilt Slip into becoming a driver at Cassidy's Cab Company after the owner is knocked out of commission by a rival cab company, Red Circle Cab.
Mr. Hex (1946)
, 1h3Directed by William Beaudine
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The boys are trying to raise money for their friend Gloria. She has to give up her aspiring singing career in order to stay home and take care of her sick mother. Slip comes up with the idea to hypnotize Sach into thinking he is an unbeatable fighter so that they can enter him into a contest to win $2,500. Meanwhile, Gabe brokers a deal with a crooked nightclub owner to give Gloria the big break she has been waiting for. The nightclub owner then hires a ringer to fight Sach as well as his own hypnotist to counter Slip's control over Sach in order to collect a fortune from everyone who has bet on Sach.
Spook Busters (1946)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey
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All of the boys have just graduated from school where they learned exterminating, except for Sach who flunked out. They set up their new business in a corner of Louie's Sweet Shop and quickly get a job to remove ghosts from an old abandoned mansion. Upon arrival they discover weird events taking place, such as lights turning on when a match is lit, and a disappearing organ. Soon they discover that these events are not the actions of ghosts, but of a mad scientist who is conducting illegal experiments in the basement.
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Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
, 1h3Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey
Rating61%
Sach (Huntz Hall) just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip (Leo Gorcey) goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
Jinx Money (1948)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Benny Bartlett
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Pollack, an underworld gambler, is murdered, but before he dies he hides $50,000 that he just won gambling in a newspaper and kicks it under a car. The next day Sach and Slip are walking in the street and find the paper and the cash. Gabe, who is a reporter, runs a story on them finding the money and the gangsters that Pollack won the money from come looking for them. One by one they take the money from the boys and are immediately killed by the mysterious "umbrella". Eventually the boys get tired of having the money taken from them and people dying around them so they hand the money over to the police. The "umbrella", not knowing that they boys no longer have the money, comes to collect it from them and is captured by the police who were staking the boys hideout waiting for the killer.
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, 1h10Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Billy Gilbert, Ernie Morrison, David Gorcey
Rating57%
In New York, the East Side youth gang, consisting of Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey), Danny Collins (Bobby Jordan), Glimpy Stone (Huntz Hall), Scruno (Ernest Morrison), Skinny (Bill Lawrence), and Peewee (David Gorcey), are falsely arrested on the wharf because the truck they are playing in was stolen. They are remanded to Wilton Reform School, where Muggs, the wise-cracking leader of the gang, is dubbed "Mr. Wise Guy" by the brutal guard Jed Miller (Dick Ryan).
Let's Get Tough (1942)
, 1h2Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Ernie Morrison
Rating52%
Watching a military parade (stock footage from World War I), the gang decides to enlist in order to "kill a million Japs". Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead. Their father figure Police Lieutenant "Pops" Stevens tell them they should be ashamed of themselves as Keno, the owner of the shop, was Chinese, an ally of America and that Danny should be especially ashamed as his brother is in the service.