Lucky Losers is a 1950 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine starring The Bowery Boys.[p.339 Marshall, Wendy L. William Beaudine: From Silents to Television Scarecrow Press, 2005]
Plot
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer.
The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattleman as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
Cast
The Bowery Boys
Remaining cast
Notes
Producer
Jan Grippo was a professional magician brought to Hollywood to teach
Veronica Lake to be convincing doing card tricks in
This Gun for Hire.
[pp.98-99 Lenburg, Jeff Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake iUniverse, 2001] He later became Leo Gorcey's agent and produced the Bowery Boys series. He performed the card and dice tricks seen in the film.
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.
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