Blonde Dynamite (1950)

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients. What they don't know, however, is that the ... See full summary »

Director:

William Beaudine

Writer:

Charles R. Marion (screenplay)

Stars:

Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Leo Gorcey	...	Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall	...	Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Adele Jergens	...	Joan 'Joanie' Marshall
Gabriel Dell	...	Gabe Moreno
Harry Lewis	...	Champ Fallon
Murray Alper	...	John Zero 'Dynamite' Bacchuss
Bernard Gorcey	...	Louie Dumbrowski
Jody Gilbert	...	Sarah Dumbrowski
William 'Billy' Benedict	...	Whitey, aka Whitmore (as William Benedict)
Buddy Gorman	...	Butch, aka Bartholomew
David Gorcey	...	Chuck, aka Sir Cedric
John Harmon	...	Professor
Michael Ross	...	Samson
Lynn Davis	...	Verna (as Lynn Davies)
Beverly Crane	...	Bunny (as Beverlee Crane)

Storyline

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients. What they don't know, however, is that the girls are part of a gang of bank robbers who want to use the Sweet Shop in order to tunnel into the vault of a bank next door.

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Plot Keywords:

vacation | escort service | tunnel | manhattan new york city | bowery boys | 

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Taglines:

THE GOOFIEST GIGOLOS IN THE DATE BUREAU! All of their customers...are gun-molls!

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 February 1950 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Monogram Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

66 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The 17th of 48 Bowery Boys movies.

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Connections

Followed by Fighting Trouble (1956)

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Soundtracks

"So You're the One"
Written by Hy Zaret, Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer
Played on the radio and sung by Adele Jergens

User Reviews

Bowery Boys #17

Blonde Dynamite (1950)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

The boys are able to talk Louie (Bernard Gorcey) into taking a much needed vacation to Coney Island. Once gone Slip (Leo Gorcey) turns his ice cream parlor into an escort service and soon he gets himself mixed up with a couple gangsters wanting to use the place to tunnel underground to the bank next door. Number seventeen in the long-running series is another winner even though it doesn't contain nearly enough laughs to be called a good movie. The story is actually a pretty good one and the cast are certainly up for anything this time around. I thought the film benefited from once again giving Gabe (Gabriel Dell) a different role and him being mixed up with the icy blonde and the gangsters was a nice switch to get the story rolling instead of having the boys bringing the trouble on. I think the screenplay would have benefited had it spent some more time with Louis. The opening sequence with his breakdown was pretty funny as was the scene where he's leaving with his wife. This is the first time we've seen him wife and hopefully the last time. Bernard Gorcey is certainly very good in his few minutes on screen with son Leo and Huntz Hall delivering they usual fine performances. This entry seemed to be going for more Three Stooges-like humor as Slip is starting to enjoy slapping Sach around each time he can. Dell is in fine form as well as Adele Jergens as the backstabbing blonde and Harry Lewis gets a nice bit as a bad guy. The film doesn't have nearly enough laughs to make it a total success but fans of the series will find enough here to make it worth watching.