Jalopy (film)

Jalopy
Directed by	William Beaudine
Written by	Tim Ryan Edmond Seward Jack Crutcher
Produced by	Ben Schwalb
Starring	Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall David Gorcey Bernard Gorcey
Cinematography	Harry Neumann
Edited by	William Austin
Music by	Marlin Skiles
Production company	Allied Artists Pictures
Distributed by	Allied Artists Pictures
Release date	February 15, 1953 (1953-02-15)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Jalopy is a 1953 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on February 15, 1953 by Allied Artists and is the twenty-ninth film in the series. Jalopy represents the first Bowery Boys film to be released by Allied Artists, previous were by Monogram Pictures.^[1]

Plot

Sach convinces Louie to rent the back room of the sweet shop to a professor. Meanwhile, Slip is preoccupied with entering their car in an auto race to raise enough money to help Louie pay his bills. They don't have any luck with the car until Sach invents a formula that makes the car go faster. A crooked gambler tries to steal the formula from them, with no luck. Slip enters into another race, but has to start the race without the formula in the car as Sach was making another batch. When Sach reaches him in the middle of the race and puts the formula in the gas tank the cars begins to accelerate...only in reverse! Sach and Slip then continue the race in reverse and wind up winning. Sach then realizes why the formula didn't work as it did before...the seltzer that he added to the formula was flat!

Cast

The Bowery Boys

• Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
• Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
• David Gorcey as Chuck (Credited as David Condon)
• Bennie Bartlett as Butch

Remaining cast

• Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
• Robert Lowery as Skid Wilson
• Jane Easton as Bobbie Lane
• Leon Belasco as Prof. Bosgood Elrod

Production

The race scenes were filmed at the Culver City Stadium in Culver City, California and were mainly unused scenes from The Roar of the Crowd, which was released by Allied Artists in the same year.^[2] It was also the first Bowery Boys' film released by Allied Artists, which was the new name of Monogram Pictures, the same company that all their previous films were released under.

Home media

Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume Three" on October 1, 2013.

References

1. "Jalopy (1953) - William Beaudine | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
2. Hayes, David (1984). The Films of the Bowery Boys. Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0806509310.

External links

• Jalopy at IMDb
• Jalopy at the TCM Movie Database
• Jalopy at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

Preceded by No Holds Barred 1952

'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958

Succeeded by Loose in London 1953