Blues Busters (1950) on Netflix
Approved19501h 7mComedyMusical
Tonsil surgery leaves Sach Jones with a singing voice. Slip Mahoney tries to get him hired at the Rio Cabana, and when that fails, Louie Dumbrowsky's sweet shop becomes a nightclub.
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Plot summary
Sach Jones has his tonsils removed, and when the operation is done he can sing in a voice he never had before. Slip Mahoney and the rest of the gang look for a way to make money from it. Slip's first idea is to get Sach hired at the Rio Cabana, a nightclub nearby, but the club turns him away. Slip is not put off: he talks Louie Dumbrowsky, who runs a sweet shop, into converting the place into a nightclub, Louie's Bowery Palace. Sach sings there, billed as the Bowery Thrush, and becomes a star, and the club's business booms.
Cast
- Buddy Gormanas Butch
- Matty Kingas Joe Ricco
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blues Busters (1950)
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- Blues Busters was the last film Frankie Darro made for Monogram, capping a run there since 1938, and he appears in it as the stuntman doubling for star Leo Gorcey, getting thrown out of the Rio Cabana nightclub.
- Blues Busters was the last Bowery Boys film to feature Gabriel Dell, who left the series in 1950 to pursue a career on stage and in television.
- Huntz Hall's singing in the film was dubbed by a singing double: a Hollywood Reporter news item named singer Bob Carroll, while some reviews credit the voice to John Laurenz.
