Crashing Las Vegas

Crashing Las Vegas (1956)

FRANTIC FUN IN FABULOUS LAS VEGAS! Stacked and Packed with LAFFS!

An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.

Date of release
1956-04-27
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 2m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Collection
The Bowery Boys Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Crashing Las Vegas is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring the comedy team The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 22, 1956 by Allied Artists and is the 41st film in the series. It was the last of the series to star Leo Gorcey.

Production

Crashing Las Vegas was Leo Gorcey's last Bowery Boys movie. He had a tough time trying to deal with the death of his father Bernard Gorcey, and began to drink heavily. Gorcey is visibly intoxicated in most of the finished film. After finishing production, Gorcey demanded an increase in his salary, but Allied Artists Pictures refused to do so. Leo quit the series as a result.

Longtime cast member Bennie Bartlett had just left the series, and was replaced by Jimmy Murphy. According to studio publicity, Murphy was working as a parking valet when he was discovered by Leo Gorcey. Gorcey felt that Murphy had a good face for the movies, and had him hired as a Bowery Boy.

With Bernard Gorcey's death, the locale of the series shifted from Louie's Sweet Shop to the gang's boardinghouse, managed by Irish landlady Mrs. Kate Kelly. In this film, she was played by Doris Kemper; for the next three films in the series, Queenie Smith would play the role.

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