1958 Allied Artists
In the Money is a 1958 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on February 16, 1958, by Allied Artists Pictures and is the 48th and final film in the series. It was directed by William Beaudine and written by Al Martin and Elwood Ullman.
PLOT:
Sach is hired to escort Gloria, a poodle, on a trip to London, England. Unbeknownst to Sach, the people who hired him are international smugglers, who have hidden some diamonds under some false fur on Gloria. The rest of The Bowery Boys, suspicious of Sach's good fortune, think that "Gloria" must be a dangerous female. They decide to sneak onto Sach's London-bound ship, only to wind up swabbing the deck as punishment for being stowaways. Once in England, Sach and the boys soon catch on to the smugglers' scheme. Inspector Herbert Saunders, a senior detective of Scotland Yard, accuses Sach and his gang of being the smugglers.
THE BOWERY BOYS:
Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones
Stanley Clements as Stanislaus "Duke" Coveleskie
David Gorcey as Charles "Chuck" Anderson
Eddie LeRoy as Blinky
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Patricia Donahue as Babs DeWitt
Paul Cavanagh as Inspector Herbert Saunders
Leonard Penn as Don Clarke
PRODUCTION:
The Bowery Boys features had traditionally been released seasonally, with a new film reaching theaters every three months. After producer Ben Schwalb moved on to other projects, the studio decided to cancel the series altogether, but Huntz Hall still had two films remaining on his contract. The studio assigned former film editor Richard Heermance to produce these final films, and the reliable William Beaudine to direct them quickly. It was a sudden, rushed ending for the unusually long-running series: both Up in Smoke and On the Make (released as In the Money) were filmed back-to-back in late August and early September 1957. Allied Artists then demolished its long-standing "Bowery street" on the studio backlot, replacing it with a western street.
Inexplicably, there is a caricature of Leo Gorcey in the opening credits, even though he had not appeared in a Bowery Boys film in nearly two years after Crashing Las Vegas (1956) - after which he quit (or was fired).
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