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Horse racing -- Betting -- Drama.
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The
lemon
drop
kid
[videorecording (DVD)].
marketed by Shout! Factory, 2010.
Call #:
DVD LEM Com
Subjects
Horse racing -- Betting -- Drama.
ISBN:
1603994769
9781603994767
Alternate title:
Damon
Runyon
's The
lemon
drop
kid
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (91 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.
Notes:
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.
Home use only.
Production:
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.
Performers:
Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, William Frawley and Tor Johnson.
Summary:
"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.
Genre:
Comedy films.
Musical films.
Crime films.
Romance films.
Christmas films.
Melodrama and tearjerker films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
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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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Christmas DVDs
DVD LEM Com
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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Adult Christmas DVDs
DVD LEM Com
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library
Adult Christmas DVDs
DVD LEM Com
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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