1955 Allied Artists
High Society is a 1955 comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 17, 1955, by Allied Artists and is the 37th film in the series. It is the only film in the series to receive an Academy Award nomination, albeit through being mistaken for another film with the same title.
PLOT:
Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pals Slip and Louie, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger Jones III, is being cheated out his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant and Clarissa Jones. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.
THE BOWERY BOYS:
Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
David Gorcey as Chuck Anderson (Credited as David Condon)
Bennie Bartlett as Butch Williams
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
Amanda Blake as Clarissa Jones
Paul Harvey as Henry Baldwin
PRODUCTION:
Chuck (David Gorcey) and Butch (Bennie Bartlett) only appear at the beginning and end of this film. The pianist Palumbo is very obviously a caricature of Liberace, complete with candelabras.
Once again, Hall and Gorcey trot out their impressions of James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson.
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HIGH SOCIETY
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