Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952 film)

1952 American film by Harmon Jones

November 14, 1952 (1952-11-14)

Running time

90 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$2 million (US rentals)^[1]

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.

A film based on multiple Runyon stories, including "Bloodhounds of Broadway," was released in 1989, this time as a PBS American Playhouse special (subsequently given theatrical release) starring Matt Dillon and Madonna.^[2]

Plot

Stackerlee is a country girl who longs to be in show business. A New York City bookmaker Foster 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

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

^ 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953
^ "Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952) - Harmon Jones | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".