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Director:
William Beaudine
Writers:
Cy Endfield (original screenplay)
Edmond Seward (additional dialogue) ...
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Release Date:
10 May 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Mystery more
Tagline:
ANY OLD CLUES! They're Private Dicks And Public Panics As They Track Down A Foxy Frail And A Fortine-Tellin' Felon! more
Plot:
The Bowery Boys---Slip , Sach, Bobby, Gabe, Whitey, and Chuck---accidentally enter the detective business with the disappearance of a beautiful girl... more | add synopsis
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And some hard-boiled canaries. more (3 total)

Cast

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Leo Gorcey ... Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall ... Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Bobby Jordan ... Bobby
Gabriel Dell ... Gabe 'Gabie'
Betty Compson ... Selena Webster
William 'Billy' Benedict ... Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
David Gorcey ... Chuck
Teala Loring ... Eleanor Williams
Dan Seymour ... Dr. Armand
Byron Foulger ... Prof. Quizard
Patti Brill ... Alice
Pierre Watkin ... Dr. Rolfe Carter
Danny Beck ... Lennie the Meatball
Bernard Gorcey ... Louie
Carmen D'Antonio ... Armand's Receptionist (as Carmen De Antonio)
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Runtime:
63 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #12282)
Company:
Monogram Pictures more

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Followed by High Society (1955) more

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And some hard-boiled canaries., 14 April 2006
Author: Leslie Howard Adams (longhorn1939@suddenlink.net) from Texas

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Gabe (Gabriel Dell), Whitey (Billy Benedicy) and Chuck (David Gorcey)---the gang's all here---accidentally enter the detective business with the disappearance of a beautiful girl, Eleanor Williams (Teala Loring), as their first case to solve.

They are retained by Selena (Betty Compson), who says she is the missing girl's sister but, at this stage in her career, Betty Compson characters were sometimes less than truthful. The disappearance is doubly puzzling because Eleanor has just learned that her long-lost husband, Tom Williams (Bob Faust), is returning from South America. Slip and Company trace Eleanor to the apartment of Dr. Rolfe Carter (Pierre Watkin), to whom she first went when Tom was reported missing three years earlier. Slip witnesses the doctor's murder, but does not know who fired the fatal shot.

Slip and his friends learn that Dr. Carter (no relation to the Little Liver Pills guy)was a pseudo-psychic (there are real ones?), who was into blackmailing his clients. He is linked with syndicate-chief Armand (Dan Seymour).

The latter, and his henchies, knowing that Slip has information regarding Carter's murder, set out to kill the boys.

Patti Brill, as Slip's girl friend, doesn't hurt this one any, either. Monogram was very good at rounding up lovely little de-icers to populate their films.

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