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Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Bloodhounds of Broadway' is a 1952 Technicolor musical film directed by Harmon Jones and based on a Damon Runyon story. It stars Mitzi Gaynor along with Scott Brady, Mitzi Green, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O'Shea, Wally Vernon, and George E. Stone. Charles Bronson appears, uncredited, as Charles Buchinski.
The film was remade 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.
Cast
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
Uncredited
* Sharon Baird as Little Elida
* Herman Boden as Dancer
* Charles Bronson (when he was still using his real name: Buchinski) as Phil Green, aka 'Pittsburgh Philo'
* Timothy Carey as Crockett Pace
* Henry Corden as Selly Bennett
* Van Des Autels as Upstate senator
* Bess Flowers as Nightclub Extra
* A. Cameron Grant as Man on Exercise Horse in Gym
* Al Green as Nightclub Drunk
* Al Hill as Bookie
* Bee Humphries as Apple Annie
* Kenner G. Kemp as Dance Extra
* Robert Long as Presiding senator
* Dayton Lummis as Chairman
* Gregg Martell as Detective Sgt. Kelly
* Edward McNally as Bit
* Joe McTurk as Process server
* Emile Meyer as Skipper
* Harold Miller as Nightclub Extra
* Alfred Mizner as Foy Pace
* Mabel Paige as Madame Moana
* Charles Tannen as Bookie on phone
* Phil Tully as Detective Lt. Moran
* Ralph Volkie as Frankie Ferraccio
* Bill Walker as Uncle Old Fella
* Paul Wexler as Theopolis Pace
* Mary Wickes as Lady at Laundry
* David Bauer as Counsel
References
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