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Crashing Las Vegas is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Jean Yarbrough released in USA on 27 april 1956 with Leo Gorcey
Crashing Las Vegas (1956)
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Add to a movie listCrashing Las Vegas is a 1956 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 22, 1956 by Allied Artists and is the forty-first film in the series. It was the last film in the series to star Leo Gorcey.
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The Bowery Boys' landlady Mrs. Kelly is in need of some money. Through some accident with electricity, Sach gains the ability to predict numbers. The boys get tickets for "Live Like a King", a game show. Thanks to Sach's new power, the boys earn a trip to one of the finest hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sach uses his power to gamble ultimately win money for Mrs. Kelly. However, it's not too long before some curious gangsters want to get in on Sach's 'secret'.Actors
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(Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney)
Huntz Hall
(Horace Debussy 'Satch' Jones)
David Gorcey
(Chuck, a Bowery Boy)
Mary Castle
(Carol LaRue)
Don Haggerty
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, 1h6Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, G. Pat Collins
Rating61%
The boys are on their way home from a masquerade party when they hear noises in a warehouse and decide to investigate. They find the warehouse is being robbed and they are mistakenly captured by the police and sentenced for robbing it. Gabe, as their lawyer, gets them off with just probation but Slip insists that he and Sach accept jail time in order to find out who is behind the series of robberies in the neighborhood. He deduces that the instructions are being sent from inside the prison via a short wave radio.
Angels in Disguise (1949)
, 1h7Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Benny Bartlett
Rating65%
Sach Jones (Huntz Hall) and Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) are copy boys for the New York Daily Chronicle newspaper and they hear their friend Gabe, a local police officer, has been shot in the line of duty, while trying to stop a robbery. Both boys are members of the Bowery Boys gang, and they decide to find the person who killed their friend. They soon find a lead, since another police man has been shot by the same killer, who turns out to be a mob gangster and member of the Loop Gang from Chicago. The boys then decide to go undercover to try to infiltrate the mob and expose them. They get a green light from their editor, Joe Cobb, to go and investigate the story further. They encounter two members of the Loop Gang and befriend them, with the result that they get to meet their boss, Angles Carson (Mickey Knox). Angles likes the boys and soon they are involved with the gang's next hit - a new robbery. Before long, they get to meet Angles' boss, Carver (Edward Ryan), who takes a liking to them because he thinks they are tough gangsters that he can use in his operation. He lets the boys in on a plan to rob the Gotham Steel Works the next day, and Slip sends this information to the police. An ambush is set, to stop the robbery and catch the gangsters, but someone on the inside slips the information about the ambush to Carver. Carver changes his plans and instead tries to rob the Beacon Machine Works. Slip has no possibility to warn the police, but when Carver is trying to crack open the safe at Beacon Machine Works the next evening, Slip gets a chance to call his editor, who passes the information forward. Unfortunately, another employee at the Chronicle, a cartoonist named Lowell, informs Carver that the police is coming. There is a showdown between Slip and Sach and the Loop Gang members, and Slip and Sach are beat up badly. They are taken to the hospital, and once there, Sach calls for a nurse to take care of him, but when a male nurse arrives he sends him to over to Slip and gets up to leave.
Master Minds (1949)
, 1h4Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Benny Bartlett
Rating60%
Sach, after eating too much candy develops a toothache which allows him to predict the future. Slip and Gabe come up with an idea to make money off of this and put him in a side show carnival. A mad scientist sees Sach's photo in the newspaper and reads about his ability and decides to visit the carnival. After seeing Sach in action he decides to kidnap him so he can transfer his brain into the brain of Atlas, a humanoid creature.
Hot Shots (1956)
, 1h1Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Joi Lansing, Queenie Smith, Robert Shayne
Rating55%
A spoiled child television star steals Sach and Duke's car. After retrieving the vehicle, the duo "teach the kid a lesson". Television executives, who are disgruntled by the child, are impressed by the duo who are then hired to watch after the boy. The child's uncle/manager is not happy with Sach and Duke's influence over the child so he gets the two fired and then kidnaps the boy for ransom, to cover up his stealing the boys earnings. Sach and Duke then rescue him.
In Society (1944)
, 1h14Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Crime
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marion Hutton, Kirby Grant, Arthur Treacher, Thomas Gomez
Rating65%
Eddie Harrington (Bud Abbott) and Albert Mansfield (Lou Costello) are plumbers who receive a call about a leak in the private bathroom of Mr. Van Cleve (Thurston Hall), a wealthy businessman. The leak is keeping him awake, but the costume ball that his wife (Nella Walker) is throwing downstairs is not.
Ghost Chasers (1951)
, 1h9Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Michael Ross, William Benedict, Buddy Gorman
Rating61%
After Slip discovers a spiritualist in the neighborhood, he enlists the boys to investigate. They discover that she is a fake and working for Margo the Medium, a radio star who has convinced Sach and Whitey that ghosts exist. They go to her place using Louie as a decoy. While she is busy trying to connect to Louie's dead uncle, the rest of the boys investigate the house. A real ghost, Edgar, befriends Sach and helps him investigate as well. Although the others cannot see Edgar, he does help them in times of crisis and helps them uncover Margo's scam.
Bowery Battalion (1951)
, 1h9Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Buddy Gorman, Bernard Gorcey
Rating61%
The military is performing a practice air raid on New York City. Sach convinces the boys that it is real and they go down to the recruiter's office and enlist. Meanwhile, Slip arrives at Louie's and finds out what just happened and goes down there to stop them. He is too late, as they have already joined, and is tricked into enlisting himself.
Loose in London (1953)
, 1h2Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, Walter Kingsford
Rating62%
Sach receives notice that a dying British earl is his long-lost relative. He travels there with the rest of the gang after exchanging his free first-class ticket for four economy class tickets. Meanwhile, Louie, who is on board to say goodbye, gets locked in a closet and becomes a stowaway. When the boys arrive in London they are treated with disdain from the earl's other relatives, who are secretly plotting to kill the earl. Sach livens up the earl by telling him to eat ice cream instead of his medicine, and generally making him laugh. The earl's health begins to improve and he decides to make Sach is sole heir. The other relatives decide they need to kill off the earl immediately, but are foiled by the boys. Unfortunately just before the earl is to sign the paperwork making Sach the heir, his lawyer arrives and informs them that he made an error and Sach isn't really his relative.
Hold That Line (1952)
, 1h4Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, Bernard Gorcey, Mona Knox
Rating60%
The members of the local university's trust make a wager that anyone can make it through college if just given the chance. Because of this, they enlist the boys to attend the university to prove the theory. While the boys do not become academic scholars, Sach invents a "vitamin" drink that makes him invincible. They all join the football team and Sach becomes the star player, leading them to the big championship game. A local gambler sees an opportunity to make some money by kidnapping Sach and preventing him from playing. However, Slip and the rest of the gang rescue Sach and return him to the game. Unfortunately he does not have any more "vitamins", so Slip plans a ruse on the playing field that distracts the other team and allows him to score the winning touchdown.
Smuggler's Cove (1948)
, 1h6Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Paul Harvey
Rating62%
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.