Gasoline Alley (1951)
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Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service station owner Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his adopted son Skeezix (James Lydon), take a back seat to newlyweds Corky (Scotty Beckett) and Hope (Susan Morrow). Hoping to establish his independence from his family, Corky opens up his own restaurant, which results in nothing but headaches. The film tries as best it can within 76 minutes to recreate the 30-year continuity of the original comic strip. Director Edward Bernds, a graduate of Columbia's short-subject department, relies upon a couple of his 2-reeler colleagues, Dick Wessel and Gus Schilling, to provide a soupcon of slapstick. Because of legal entanglements, neither Gasoline Alley nor its sequel Corky of Gasoline Alley are available for TV showings. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Scotty Beckett - Corky
- Susan Morrow - Hope
- Pat Brady - Judy
- Gus Schilling - Joe Allen
- Byron Foulger - Charles D. Haven
- Jimmy Lloyd - Harry Dorsey
- Ralph Peters - Reddick
- Charles Williams - Mortie
- Dick Wessel - Pudge
- Jimmy Lydon - Skeezix
- Don Beddoe - Walt Wallet
- Madelon Mitchell - Phyllis
- Kay Christopher - Nina
- Virginia Toland - Carol Rice
- William Forrest - Hacker
- Charles Halton - Pettit
- Christine McIntyre - Myrtle
- Director(s):
- Edward Bernds
- Writer(s):
- Edward Bernds
- Producer(s):
- Milton Feldman
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