Bloodhounds of Broadway is a 1952 Technicolor musical film directed by Harmon Jones and based on a Damon Runyon story. It stars Mitzi Gaynor along with Scott Brady, Mitzi Green, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O'Shea, Wally Vernon, and George E. Stone. Charles Bronson appears, uncredited, as Charles Buchinski.
Bloodhounds of Broadway | |
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Directed by | Harmon Jones |
Written by | Sy Gomberg Albert Mannheimer |
Based on | Bloodhounds of Broadway 1931 story in Collier's by Damon Runyon |
Produced by | George Jessel |
Starring | Mitzi Gaynor Scott Brady Mitzi Green Marguerite Chapman Michael O'Shea |
Cinematography | Edward Cronjager |
Edited by | George A. Gittens |
Music by | Lionel Newman |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2 million (US rentals)[1] |
A film based on multiple Runyon stories, including "Bloodhounds of Broadway," was released in 1989, this time as a PBS American Playhouse special (subsequently given theatrical release) starring Matt Dillon and Madonna.[2]
Stackerlee is a country girl who longs to be in show business. A New York City bookmaker Foster is hiding out in Georgia and meets her and the inevitable happens – he goes straight and she gets her wish.
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