Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952 film)

Bloodhounds of Broadway is a 1952 Technicolor musical film based on a Damon Runyon story. It starred Mitzi Gaynor, who was then still a young starlet, along with Scott Brady, Mitzi Green, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O'Shea, Wally Vernon, George E. Stone, Charles Bronson appears, uncredited, as Charles Buchinski (as he was in the 1953 3-D film House of Wax). It was directed by Harmon Jones.

Contents

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• Bloodhounds of broadway trailer 1989
• Plot summary
• Main
• Supporting
• References

Bloodhounds of Broadway was remade, very poorly, in 1989, this time as a PBS American Playhouse special (subsequently given theatrical release) starring Matt Dillon and Madonna.

Plot summary

Stackerlee (Mitzi Gaynor) is a country girl who longs to be in show business. A New York bookmaker Foster (Scott Brady) is hiding out in Georgia and meets her and the inevitable happens – he goes straight and she gets her wish.

Main

Mitzi Gaynor as Emily Ann Stackerlee

Scott Brady as Robert 'Numbers' Foster

Mitzi Green as '52nd Tessie' Sammis

Marguerite Chapman as Yvonne Dugan

Michael O'Shea as Inspector McNamara

Wally Vernon as Harry 'Poorly' Sammis

George E. Stone as Ropes McGonigle

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Supporting

Henry Slate as Dave the Dude

Edwin Max as Lookout Louie Larchment

Richard Allan as Curtaintime Charlie