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Hold That Baby! (1949)

Movie"LOOK WHO'S BABY-SITTING! Leo's playing "Mother" to a missing heir worth millions!"
Audience Score
50
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NR 1 hr 4 minJun 6th, 1949ComedyThe Bowery Boys Collection PosterPart of The Bowery Boys Collection
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
StarringLeo GorceyHuntz HallGabriel Dell
DirectorReginald Le Borg

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 6th, 1949
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Monogram Pictures
Movie Tags:
bowery boys

The Bowery Boys Collection

From Dead Ends to the East Side and finally landing in Louie's Sweet Shop in the heart of the Bowery (3rd and Canal, natch!), there was no stopping these Boys! When understudy Leo Gorcey joined the ensemble of teen thespians on stage for the Broadway hit "Dead End", Hollywood soon followed with William Wyler taking the troupe in toto for 1937's film version. Personifying the grit and heart of the kid gangs sprouting up in city slums, these little wise guys quickly stole the nation's heart. Ably anchored by the central pair of Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, the kids moved from "preachment" and crime pictures to straight up comedy as The Bowery Boys - and the rest is history as the boys capered through scores of pictures for over two decades!