Hold That Hypnotist
Hold That Hypnotist | |
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Directed by | Austen Jewell |
Written by | Dan Pepper |
Produced by | Ben Schwalb |
Starring | Huntz Hall Stanley Clements David Gorcey Jimmy Murphy Queenie Smith Jane Nigh |
Cinematography | Harry Neumann |
Edited by | George White |
Music by | Marlin Skiles |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Hold That Hypnotist is a 1957 American
Plot
The Bowery Boys' landlady Mrs. Kelly believes in a theory proposed by Dr. Simon Noble that through hypnosis, one can regress into a former life, or lives, from the past. Sach is hypnotized and recounts stories from several past lives. Evidently Sach once lived during the colonial era as Algy Winkle, an English tax collector in Charleston, South Carolina. Winkle runs afoul of the notorious Blackbeard the Pirate, and wins Blackbeard's map leading to buried treasure. The Bowery Boys use the map to locate the treasure, while Dr. Noble and his criminal confederates try to take it away from them.
Cast
The Bowery Boys
- Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones
- Stanley Clements as Stanislaus "Duke" Coveleskie
- David Gorcey as Chuck (credited as David Condon)
- Jimmy Murphy as Myron
Remaining cast
- Queenie Smith as Mrs. Kate Kelly
- Jane Nigh as Cleo Daniels
- Robert Foulk as Dr. Simon Noble
- James Flavin as Jake Morgan
- Murray Alper as Gail
- Mel Welles as Blackbeard
- Dick Elliott as Hotel Clerk
- Mary Treen as Chambermaid
Cast notes
- Last appearance of Mrs. Kelly.
- In Sach's Algy Winkle flashback, set in a colonial pub, Duke appears as a bartender, Chuck and Myron are customers, and Cleo Daniels is a waitress.
- In Looking for Danger two pictures later, Elliott would assume the role of cafe owner Mike Clancy, replacing Bernard Gorcey as sweet-shop owner Louie Dumbrowski.
Home media
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume Four" on August 26, 2014.
References
- ISBN 978-0806509310.