Hard Boiled Mahoney

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Gabriel Dell, Teala Loring, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Dan Seymour in Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)

Mistaken for a detective, Slip takes on the case of a missing woman, which turns out to be bogus.Mistaken for a detective, Slip takes on the case of a missing woman, which turns out to be bogus.Mistaken for a detective, Slip takes on the case of a missing woman, which turns out to be bogus.

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6.2/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
The only film in the Bowery Boys series where Gabe is part of the gang and not a former member or protagonist.

Goofs
At 10:47 Gabe chews on a match. The match shifts from left and right sides of his mouth between group shots and close-ups, and even seems to disappear entirely in the last shot.

Quotes
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: [Bobby gets thrown out of a psychic office] D'ya learn anything?
Bobby: Yeah, I learned I can bounce.

Connections
Followed by News Hounds (1947)

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6/10

What Bowery Boy refuses a mysterious woman?

With a plot gimmick borrowed from the Bob Hope classic My Favorite Brunette, the Bowery Boys get launched into the detective business in Hard Boiled Mahoney.

If you remember Alan Ladd has a cameo appearance in the Hope film and Hope is minding the office when he's hired for a case. Here Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall are trying to get some money owed to Sach by a detective who is out. A mysterious woman comes in to hire said detective to find her sister and what self respecting Bowery Boy ever could refuse a mysterious woman?

There's a little more plot than usual in this Bowery Boy film and you will enjoy the climax involving the boys in eluding the bad guys taking up the guises of that band of professors from Ball Of Fire and going on an Information Please type show with Byron Foulger as the Clifton Fadiman type host. Even without most of today's audience knowing about Information Please or Clifton Fadiman it can still be enjoyed.

Guaranteed laughs from Hard Boiled Mahoney.