Blues Busters (film)

Blues Busters is a 1950 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on October 29, 1950 by Monogram Pictures and is the twentieth film in the series.

After Sachs singing makes him a star, Rick Martin Craig Stevens, the owner of the nowrival club, tries to hire him away but is unsuccessful. Rick gets his lady friend, Lola Adele Jergens, to get Sach to sign a contract with him, using the pretense that she is asking for his autograph. Rick then goes after the Bowery Palaces other star, Sally Dolan Phyllis Coates. She, however, does not want to go because Rick is after more than just her singing talent. She tips off Lola about what Rick is up to and Lola agrees to testify that Sachs signature was just an autograph and not a signed contract, thereby allowing him to return to the Bowery Palace. However, by this time Sach has gone to a doctor to help cure the tickle in his throat and he has lost the ability to sing.The working title of this film was The Bowery Thrush.citation needed This is the last Bowery Boys film that Gabriel Dell appears in. Tired of taking a back seat to costars Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hallcitation needed , he decided to quit the series. Ironically, around the time Dell was leaving, he and Huntz Hall formed a nightclub act called Hall and Dell, in which the two performed classic vaudeville routines. Dell played straight man to Hall. ........

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