Hard Boiled Mahoney
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Director William Beaudine Film series Live Wires Film Series Duration | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Crime, Mystery Music director Edward J. Kay Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 26, 1947 (1947-04-26) Writer Cy Endfield (original screenplay), Edmond Seward (additional dialogue), Tim Ryan (additional dialogue) Cast Leo Gorcey (Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney), Huntz Hall (Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones), Betty Compson (Selena Webster), Gabriel Dell (Gabe), Teala Loring (Eleanor Williams), William 'Billy' Benedict (Whitey)Live Wires movies Hard Boiled Mahoney and Mr Hex are part of the same movie series, Hard Boiled Mahoney and News Hounds are part of the same movie series, Hard Boiled Mahoney and Jinx Money are part of the same movie series, Hard Boiled Mahoney and Bowery Buckaroos are part of the same movie series, Hard Boiled Mahoney and Spook Busters are part of the same movie series Tagline They're tip-top snoopers in the tip-toe racket ! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hard Boiled Mahoney is a 1947 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. It is the sixth film in the series.
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Plot
Sach (Huntz Hall) just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip (Leo Gorcey) goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
The only clue they have is the spiritualist Dr. Carter (Pierre Watkin). They track him down, only to see him being murdered. Slip is knocked unconscious and when he wakes a woman is there calling the police. Slip identifies her as the other woman's sister, but she denies it. After asking questions, Slip believes the woman is not the other one's sister and they assist each other in escaping the police and make plans to meet up later.
Slip and Sach then go to see the fortune teller Armand (Dan Seymour) and find out that the two women aren't related, they both just want to get back incriminating letters that Armand has that he uses to blackmail them. Eventually the good and bad guys meet up at Louie's Sweet Shop and a fight takes place. As soon as it ends, Louie's waitress, Alice (Patti Brill), arrives with the police and takes away Armand and his gang. The boys then all take turns hitting Slip on the head with their hats after they discover that he used the entire $50 trying to get the information to solve the mystery.
Production
This is the only Bowery Boys film in which Gabe (Gabriel Dell) is part of the team, in every other film he is a protagonist or former team member. In this film, he reprises his character of "Talman" (a.k.a. "Pete") that he portrayed in the East Side Kids final film, Come Out Fighting.
The Bowery Boys
Remaining cast
Home media
Released on VHS by Warner Brothers on September 1, 1998.
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume Two" on April 9, 2013.
References
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