''In the Money'' is a 1958 American

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directed by

William Beaudine William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out a remarkable 179 feature-length films in a wide variety of genres. He is best know ...

and starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on February 16, 1958, by Allied Artists Pictures and is the 48th and final film in the series. It was directed by

and written by Al Martin and Elwood Ullman.

Plot

Sach is hired to escort Gloria, a poodle, on a trip to London, England. Unbeknownst to Sach, the people who hired him are international smugglers, who have hidden some diamonds under some false fur on Gloria. The rest of The Bowery Boys, suspicious of Sach's good fortune, think that "Gloria" must be a dangerous female. They decide to sneak onto Sach's London-bound ship, only to wind up swabbing the deck as punishment for being stowaways. Once in England, Sach and the boys soon catch on to the smugglers' scheme. Inspector Herbert Saunders, a senior detective of Scotland Yard, accuses Sach and his gang of being the smugglers.

Cast

The Bowery Boys

* Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones * Stanley Clements as Stanislaus "Duke" Coveleskie * David Gorcey as Charles "Chuck" Anderson *

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as Blinky

Remaining cast

* Patricia Donahue as Babs DeWitt * Paul Cavanagh as Inspector Herbert Saunders * Leonard Penn as Don Clarke * John Dodsworth as Blake Cummings * Leslie Denison as Inspector White (uncredited) * Dick Elliott as Mike Clancy (uncredited) * Ralph Gamble as Randall (uncredited) * Pamela Light as girl with French heels (uncredited) * Owen McGiveney as Dr. Rufus B. Smedley (uncredited) * Jack Mulhall as the police desk sergeant * Patrick O'Moore as Reggie (uncredited) * Ashley Cowan as Bellboy (uncredited) * Snub Pollard as Scotland Yard Valet (uncredited) * Norma Varden as Mrs. Smythe-Chumley, owner of dog Madeline (uncredited)

Production

The Bowery Boys features had traditionally been released seasonally, with a new film reaching theaters every three months. After producer Ben Schwalb moved on to other projects, the studio decided to cancel the series altogether, but Huntz Hall still had two films remaining on his contract. The studio assigned former film editor Richard Heermance to produce these final films, and the reliable

to direct them quickly. It was a sudden, rushed ending for the unusually long-running series: both '' Up in Smoke'' and ''On the Make'' (released as ''In the Money'') were filmed back-to-back in late August and early September of 1957. Allied Artists then demolished its long-standing "Bowery street" on the studio backlot, replacing it with a western street.''Hollywood Reporter,'' "Westward Bound," October 11, 1957, p. 3.

Home media

Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of ''"The Bowery Boys, Volume Four"'' on August 26, 2014.

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* * * {{William Beaudine 1958 comedy films 1958 films Bowery Boys films American black-and-white films 1950s English-language films Films directed by William Beaudine American comedy films Films set in London Allied Artists films 1950s American films Films scored by Marlin Skiles