Hold That Baby!

Hold That Baby!
Directed by	Reginald LeBorg
Produced by	Jan Grippo
Written by	Gerald Schnitzer Charles Marion
Starring	Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell David Gorcey William Benedict
Music by	Edward J. Kay
Cinematography	William Sickner
Edited by	William Austin
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release dates	June 26, 1949
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Hold That Baby! is a 1949 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on June 26, 1949 by Monogram Pictures and is the fourteenth film in the series.

Plot

The boys are running a laundromat in the back room of Louie's Sweet Shop. A woman, Laura Andrews, comes in and leaves her baby in one of the laundry baskets and the boys find him. The discover that he is the heir to a fortune, and that his mother hid him so that her aunts couldn't steal the inheritance. After discovering the baby is missing, the aunts have Laura committed.

Meanwhile a bunch of gangsters get wind of the situation and make a deal with the aunts to keep the baby away from the reading of the will. Sach and Slip sneak into the mental ward and help Laura escape. They make it to the reading of the will just in time and Laura and her son gain the inheritance and the aunts are arrested, along with the gangsters.

Cast

The Bowery Boys

• Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
• Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
• William Benedict as Whitey
• David Gorcey as Chuck
• Bennie Bartlett as Butch

Remaining cast

• Gabriel Dell as Gabe Moreno
• Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
• Frankie Darro as Bananas
• Anabel Shaw as Laura Andrews
• John Kellogg as Cherry Nose Gray
• Ida Moore as Faith Andrews

Home media

Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume One" on November 23, 2012.

References

External links

• Hold That Baby! at the Internet Movie Database