Jinx Money (1948)
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Synopsis of Jinx Money
Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when a gambler is murdered shortly after winning $50,000 in a card game. As the other cardplayers scramble around in search of the money, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones (Huntz Hall) recover the loot from a gutter. Intending to turn 75% of the money over to charity and pocket the rest, our heroes get mixed up with the murder of yet another cardplayer. The cops are stymied, but Sach, who glimpsed the killer as he made his escape, prattles on and on about "The umbrella with the hand." Sure enough, the culprit does carry an umbrella, but it takes several more murders to ascertain his true identity. At times, there are more corpses than characters in this offbeat comedy thriller. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Jinx Money
- Stanley Andrews - Bank President
- Billy Benedict - Whitey
- Gabriel Dell - Gabe, the Reporter
- Ralph Dunn - Jack "Cold Deck" Shapiro
- John Eldredge - Lullaby Shmo
- David Gorcey - Chuck
- Huntz Hall - Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones
- Lucien Littlefield - Tipper
- Wanda McKay - Virginia
- William Vedder - Meek Man
- Bennie Bartlett - Butch
- Ben Baker - Augie Pollack
- Betty Caldwell - Candy McGill
- Mike Pat Donovan - Bank Guard
- George Eldredge - Tax Man
- Bernard Gorcey - Louie Dumbrowski
- Leo Gorcey - Terrence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney
- Tom Kennedy - Officer Rooney
- Donald MacBride - Lt. Broderick
- William H. Ruhl - Sgt. Ryan
- Ben Welden - Benny the Meatball
- Sheldon Leonard - Lippy Harris
- Director(s):
- William Beaudine
- Writer(s):
- Edmond Seward, Gerald J. Schnitzer, Tim Ryan
- Producer(s):
- Jan Grippo
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