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The lemon drop kid [videorecording (DVD)].

marketed by Shout! Factory, 2010.

Horse racing -- Betting -- Drama.

Alternate title:

Damon Runyon's The lemon drop kid [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (91 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on Damon Runyon's The lemon drop kid.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.

At head of container title: Bob Hope is.

A Paramount picture ; story by Edmund Beloin ; screenplay by Edmund Hartmann, Robert O'Brien and Frank Tashlin ; produced by Robert L. Welch ; directed by Sidney Lanfield.

Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, William Frawley and Tor Johnson.

"Bob Hope stars as Sidney Melbourne (a/k/a 'The Lemon Drop Kid'), a con man who offers a friendly 'sure thing' horse tip to the girlfriend of mobster Moose Moran. But when Sidney's sure thing loses and Moose's original pick wins, Sidney's given until Christmas to pay back the money or else. So to raise the money he owes, Sidney enlists some old pals to hit the street corners of New York dressed as Santa Claus accepting donations for a bogus elderly ladies' homes. Calamity ensues when a gangster Oxford Charlie (Lloyd Nolan) tries to move in on Sidney's scam. What follows is vintage Hope shenanigans, highlighted by a heart-warming rendition of the Christmas classic 'Silver Bells' sung by Hope and his co-star Marilyn Maxwell."--Container.

Christmas films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Runyon, Damon, 1880-1946. Lemon drop kid.

Lanfield, Sidney, 1898-1972.

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003.

Maxwell, Marilyn.

Evans, Ray, 1915-2007.

Darwell, Jane, 1880-1967.

Frawley, William, 1887-1966.

Johnson, Tor, 1903-1971.

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