Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952 film)

Bloodhounds of Broadway is a 1952 Technicolor musical film directed by Harmon Jones and based on a Damon Runyon story. It stars Mitzi Gaynor along with Scott Brady, Mitzi Green, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O'Shea, Wally Vernon, and George E. Stone. Charles Bronson appears, uncredited, as Charles Buchinski.

A film based on multiple Runyon stories, including "Bloodhounds of Broadway," was released in 1989, this time as a PBS American Playhouse special (subsequently given theatrical release) starring Matt Dillon and Madonna.

Plot
Stackerlee is a country girl who longs to be in show business. A New York City bookmaker Foster is hiding out in Georgia and meets her and the inevitable happens – he goes straight and she gets her wish.

Main
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 * Mitzi Gaynor as Emily Ann Stackerlee
 * Scott Brady as Robert 'Numbers' Foster
 * Mitzi Green as '52nd Tessie' Sammis
 * Marguerite Chapman as Yvonne Dugan
 * Michael O'Shea as Inspector McNamara
 * Wally Vernon as Harry 'Poorly' Sammis
 * George E. Stone as Ropes McGonigle

Supporting

 * Henry Slate as Dave the Dude
 * Edwin Max as Lookout Louie Larchment
 * Richard Allan as Curtaintime Charlie

Uncredited

 * Sharon Baird as Little Elida
 * Herman Boden as Dancer
 * Charles Bronson (when he was still using his real name: Buchinski) as Phil Green, aka 'Pittsburgh Philo'
 * Timothy Carey as Crockett Pace
 * Henry Corden as Selly Bennett
 * Van Des Autels as Upstate senator
 * Bess Flowers as Nightclub Extra
 * A. Cameron Grant as Man on Exercise Horse in Gym
 * Al Green as Nightclub Drunk
 * Al Hill as Bookie
 * Bee Humphries as Apple Annie
 * Kenner G. Kemp as Dance Extra
 * Robert Long as Presiding senator
 * Dayton Lummis as Chairman
 * Gregg Martell as Detective Sgt. Kelly
 * Edward McNally as Bit
 * Joe McTurk as Process server
 * Emile Meyer as Skipper
 * Harold Miller as Nightclub Extra
 * Alfred Mizner as Foy Pace
 * Mabel Paige as Madame Moana
 * Charles Tannen as Bookie on phone
 * Phil Tully as Detective Lt. Moran
 * Ralph Volkie as Frankie Ferraccio
 * Bill Walker as Uncle Old Fella
 * Paul Wexler as Theopolis Pace
 * Mary Wickes as Lady at Laundry
 * David Bauer as Counsel