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...taken a lot of Runyon characters and wrapped them up according to ordinary musical formula. This is, however, one slight twist: instead of two men chasing a girl, there are two girls after a fidgety bookie, called Brain Foster (Scott Brady). Virtue, of course, triumphs in the end and Mitzi Gaynot as a showgirl managers to win the doublin reward of marrying Foster, but not without several chases in which the ubiquitous bloodhounds play a conspicuous part...
Miss Gaynor scampering around culivens the movie and her songs manage to salvage several scenes, but unfortunately she is often cut short soon after she starts to sing. Her namesake, Mitzi Green, also turns in an adequate performance as a Broadway Big-sister. But Brady's portrayal of the bookie tails to do even partial justice to several situations in the plot which are in trinsically annusing. There is the usual gallery of Run von crecentics, and they are handled little better...
...result of having to skip town because of a crime investigation, Bookie "Numbers" Foster (Scott Brady) and his hypochondriac sidekick, "Poorly" Sammis (Wally Vernon) wind up in Georgia backwoods country, where they adopt a hillbilly girl (Mitzi Gaynor). In short order the pretty hillbilly becomes a dancing star at Dave the Dude's nightspot and horse parlor on Broadway. It takes just a little while longer for Numbers, spurred on by Mitzi's affection, to decide to go straight...
Bloodhounds of Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a howl with their own particular brand of doleful dramatics...
...laconic Long Island couple (Paul Douglas and Eve Arden) who communicate with each other only in monosyllables; Mrs. Mississippi (Marilyn Monroe), a bathing-beauty contest winner, and her baby-tending husband (David Wayne); a G.I. (Eddie Bracken) from Richmond, Va. who frantically tries to remarry his expectant wife (Mitzi Gaynor) just as he is about to be shipped overseas...