Hold That Baby!
1949 film by Reginald Le Borg
- June 26, 1949 (1949-06-26)
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Hold That Baby! is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Reginald LeBorg and starring The Bowery Boys.[1] The film was released on June 26, 1949, by Monogram Pictures and is the fourteenth film in the series.
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
- Billy Benedict as Whitey
- Bennie Bartlett as Butch
- David Gorcey as Chuck
Remaining cast
- Gabriel Dell as Gabe Moreno
- Frankie Darro as Bananas
- Anabel Shaw as Laura Andrews
- John Kellogg as Cherry Nose Gray
- Edward Gargan as Officer Burton
- Ida Moore as Faith Andrews
- Florence Auer as Hope Andrews
- Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
- Pierre Watkin as John Winston
- Torben Meyer as Dr. Hans Heinrich
- Fred Nurney as Dr. Hugo Schiller
- Frances Irvin as Cynthia
- Emmett Vogan as Dr. Foster
- Meyer Grace as Joe, the Crooner
- Max Marx as Gypsy Moran
- Cay Forrester as Nurse
- Buddy Gorman as Paper Boy
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
- ^ Hayes, David (1982). The Films of the Bowery Boys. Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0806509310.
External links
- Hold That Baby! at IMDb
- Hold That Baby! at AllMovie
- Hold That Baby! at the TCM Movie Database
- Hold That Baby! at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
| Preceded by Fighting Fools 1949 | 'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958 | Succeeded by Angels in Disguise 1949 |
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- Bennie Bartlett
- William Benedict
- Stanley Clements
- Gabriel Dell
- William Frambes
- David Gorcey
- Leo Gorcey
- Buddy Gorman
- Huntz Hall
- Bobby Jordan
- Eddie LeRoy
- Jimmy Murphy
- Gil Stratton, Jr.
- Danny Welton
- Live Wires
- In Fast Company
- Bowery Bombshell
- Spook Busters
- Mr. Hex
- Hard Boiled Mahoney
- News Hounds
- Bowery Buckaroos
- Angels' Alley
- Jinx Money
- Smugglers' Cove
- Trouble Makers
- Fighting Fools
- Hold That Baby!
- Angels in Disguise
- Master Minds
- Blonde Dynamite
- Lucky Losers
- Triple Trouble
- Blues Busters
- Bowery Battalion
- Ghost Chasers
- Let's Go Navy!
- Crazy Over Horses
- Hold That Line
- Here Come the Marines
- Feudin' Fools
- No Holds Barred
- Jalopy
- Loose in London
- Clipped Wings
- Private Eyes
- Paris Playboys
- The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
- Jungle Gents
- Bowery to Bagdad
- High Society
- Spy Chasers
- Jail Busters
- Dig That Uranium
- Crashing Las Vegas
- Fighting Trouble
- Hot Shots
- Hold That Hypnotist
- Spook Chasers
- Looking for Danger
- Up in Smoke
- In the Money
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