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Lucky Losers is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William Beaudine released in USA on 14 may 1950 with Leo Gorcey
Lucky Losers (1950)
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Add to a movie listLucky 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.
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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.Actors
Leo Gorcey
(Slip Mahoney)
Huntz Hall
(Sach Jones)
Gabriel Dell
(Gabe Moreno)
David Gorcey
(Chuck)
William Benedict
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Angels' Alley (1948)
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