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In Fast Company is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. It is the second film in the series.

In Fast Company
Directed by	Del Lord
Written by	Martin Mooney (story) Edmond Seward Tim Ryan Victor Hammond Raymond Schrock
Produced by	Jan Grippo Lindsley Parsons
Starring	Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall Bobby Jordan William Benedict
Cinematography	William A. Sickner
Edited by	William Austin
Music by	Edward J. Kay
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release date	June 22, 1946 (1946-06-22)
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

The boys are involved in an altercation with a vegetable vendor and are saved by Father Donovan who convinces the policeman to let them go. He uses that to guilt Slip into becoming a driver at Cassidy's Cab Company after the owner is knocked out of commission by a rival cab company, Red Circle Cab.

Slip clashes with drivers of the rival company and enlists the aid of the rest of the gang to expose the company to the owner, Mr. McCormick.

Cast

The Bowery Boys

• Leo Gorcey as Terrance 'Slip' Mahoney
• Huntz Hall as Sach
• Bobby Jordan as Bobby
• William Benedict as Whitey
• David Gorcey as Chuck

Remaining cast

• Bernard Gorcey as Louie
• Judy Clark as Mabel Dumbrowski
• Jane Randolph as Marian McCormick
• Douglas Fowley as Steve Trent
• Charles D. Brown as Father Donovan

Production

Gorcey's father, Bernard Gorcey makes his first appearances as the owner of Louie's Sweet Shop, and it is also the first appearance of an all-out fistfight which would become a common plot element in the series.

David Gorcey's first Bowery Boys film. He would remain with the series up until the end in 1958, playing the role of 'Chuck'.

The film, made under the working title In High Gear, is a remake, with Monogram Pictures filming an earlier version in 1938.[1]

Home media

Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume One" on November 23, 2012.

References

External links

• In Fast Company at IMDb

Preceded by Live Wires 1946	'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958	Succeeded by Bowery Bombshell 1946

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