The console television in McDermott's office is a 1950 Admiral model 39X36 with a 16 inch black and white screen. The right side of the cabinet houses a radio and turntable. Retail price was $499.99, which is the equivalent to a bit over $6,125 in 2022.
Louie, who appears "in disguise" as Arizona, the short, chubby craps player in the oversize cowboy hat, is played by Bernard Gorcey, the real life dad of top-billed Bowery Boy Leo Gorcey. The father/son team co-starred in many a low budget film until Bernard died as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Shot in six days.
The 18th of 48 Bowery Boys movies released from 1946 to 1958.
In the last scene, Gabe introduces "two boys" who cracked a gambling syndicate. Huntz Hall was thirty years old; Leo Gorcey was thirty-three. They would go on to make Bowery Boys features for another eight years.
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