Hold That Baby!
Hold That Baby! is a 1949 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on June 26, 1949 by Monogram Pictures and is the fourteenth film in the series.
| Hold That Baby! | |
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| Directed by | Reginald LeBorg |
| Produced by | Jan Grippo |
| Written by | Gerald Schnitzer Charles Marion |
| Starring | Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell David Gorcey William Benedict |
| Music by | Edward J. Kay |
| Cinematography | William Sickner |
| Edited by | William Austin |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 64 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
The boys are running a laundromat in the back room of Louie's Sweet Shop. A woman, Laura Andrews, comes in and leaves her baby in one of the laundry baskets and the boys find him. They discover that he is the heir to a fortune, and that his mother hid him so that her aunts couldn't steal the inheritance. After discovering the baby is missing, the aunts have Laura committed to a sanatorium for supposedly being mentally ill.
Meanwhile a bunch of gangsters get wind of the situation and make a deal with the aunts to keep the baby away from the reading of the will. Sach and Slip sneak into the sanatorium under the guise of committing Sach where they help Laura escape. They make it to the reading of the will just in time and Laura and her son gain the inheritance and the aunts are arrested, along with the gangsters.
During the film Sach has a One Touch of Venus type longing for a store mannequin he calls Cynthia.
Cast
The Bowery Boys
- Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
- Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
- William Benedict as Whitey
- David Gorcey as Chuck
- Bennie Bartlett as Butch
Remaining cast
- Gabriel Dell as Gabe Moreno
- Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
- Frankie Darro as Bananas
- Anabel Shaw as Laura Andrews
- John Kellogg as Cherry Nose Gray
- Ida Moore as Faith Andrews
- Edward Gargan as Officer Burton
- Cay Forrester as Sanitarium Nurse
- Buddy Gorman as Paper Boy
- Frances Irvin as Cynthia
Home media
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume One" on November 23, 2012.
| Preceded by Fighting Fools 1949 |
'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958 |
Succeeded by Angels in Disguise 1949 |
References
External links
- Hold That Baby! on IMDb
- Hold That Baby! at AllMovie
- Hold That Baby! at the TCM Movie Database
- Hold That Baby! at the American Film Institute Catalog