Bloodhounds of Broadway 1952

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Bloodhounds of Broadway ★★½ 1952

New York bookie Numbers Foster (Brady) heads out of town to avoid a criminal investigation and winds up in backwoods Georgia where he meets talented Tessie (Gaynor), who convinces Numbers to take her back up north with him. She finds success on Broadway and finally persuades the bookie to turn himself in. Numbers does his time, and then gets his gal. Based on a story by Damon Runyon. 90m/C DVD . Mitzi Gaynor, Scott Brady, Mitzie Green, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O'Shea, Wally Vernon; D: Harmon Jones; W: Sy Gomberg; C: Edward Cronjag-er; M: Lionel Newman.

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