| Hard Boiled Mahoney | |
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| Directed by | William Beaudine |
| Written by | Cy Endfield |
| Produced by | Jan Grippo |
| Starring | Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall Bobby Jordan William Benedict Gabriel Dell |
| Cinematography | James S. Brown Jr. |
| Edited by | William Austin |
| Music by | Edward J. Kay |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures |
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Running time | 63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hard Boiled Mahoney is a 1947 Americancomedy film directed byWilliam Beaudine and starring the comedy team ofthe Bowery Boys along withTeala Loring andBetty Compson.[1] It is the sixth film in the series produced byMonogram Pictures.
Sach has lost his job as an assistant to aprivate detective, but he was not paid. Slip accompanies Sach to the detective's office to demand payment but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective. She convinces him to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
The only help that Sach and Slip have is thespiritualist Dr. Carter. They witness his murder, and Slip is knocked unconscious. When he wakes, a woman is there calling the police. Slip identifies her as the other woman's sister, but she denies it. After asking questions, Slip believes the woman is not the other one's sister and they assist each other in escaping the police and make plans to meet later.
Slip and Sach visit the fortune teller Armand and learn that the two women are not related; instead, the women both want to take possession of incriminating letters that Armand uses to blackmail them. There is a fight at a sweet shop and the police arrest Armand and his gang.
This is the only Bowery Boys film in which Gabe (Gabriel Dell) is part of the team. In every other film. he is a protagonist or former team member.[2] In this film, he reprises his character of Talman (a.k.a. Pete) that he portrayed in theEast Side Kids' final film,Come Out Fighting.
The film was released inVHS format by Warner Bros. on September 1, 1998.
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-orderDVD in the United States as part of the second volume of a Bowery Boys set on April 9, 2013.
| Preceded by Mr. Hex 1947 | 'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958 | Succeeded by News Hounds 1947 |