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Director
  
Reginald Le Borg

Film series
  
Live Wires Film Series

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Comedy

Music director
  
Edward J. Kay

Language
  
English

Hold That Baby! movie poster

Writer
  
Gerald Schnitzer
,
Charles Marion

Release date
  
June 26, 1949 (1949-06-26)

Cast
  
Leo Gorcey
,
Huntz Hall
,
Gabriel Dell
,
David Gorcey
,
William "Billy" Benedict

Similar movies
  
Live Wires movies, Related Reginald Le Borg movies

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.

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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. The 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.

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 mental ward and 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.

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
  • 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.

    References

    Hold That Baby! Wikipedia
    Hold That Baby! IMDb Hold That Baby! themoviedb.org