The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Nota IMDb:7,1
Regia: Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin (uncredited)
Scenariu: Edmund Beloin (story), Irving Elinson (additional dialogue)
Cu: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan
Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope), un barbat smecher din New York, isi arunca o privire asupra unei femei frumoase (Marilyn Maxwell) care intentioneaza sa parieze 2.000 de dolari pe un cal numit Iron Bar.
Stiind deja finalul aranjat, Kid o convinge sa-si schimbe pariul, dar afla ca de fapt a pariat iubitul iubitul ei,un gangsterul notoriu Moose Moran (Fred Clark).
Cand calul termina cursa pe ultimul loc, Moran furios ii cere lui Kid sa-i plateasca 10.000 de dolari pana in ajunul Craciunului...
Distributie:
Bob Hope ... Sidney Milburn aka The Lemon Drop Kid
Marilyn Maxwell ... 'Brainey' Baxter
Lloyd Nolan ... Oxford Charlie
Jane Darwell ... Nellie Thursday
Andrea King ... Stella
Fred Clark ... Moose Moran
Jay C. Flippen ... Straight Flush Tony
William Frawley ... Gloomy Willie
Harry Bellaver ... Sam the Surgeon
Sid Melton ... Little Louie
Ben Welden ... Singing Solly
Ida Moore ... Mrs. Feeney - The Bird Lady
Francis Pierlot ... Henry Regan
Charles Cooley ... Goomba
Salvatore De Lorenzo ... Street-corner Santa Claus (as Society Kid Hogan)