Jalopy is a 1953 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 starring The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys were fictional New York City characters who were the subject of feature films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958....

. The film was released on February 15, 1953 by Allied Artists and is the twenty-ninth film in the series.

Plot

Sach convinces Louie to rent the back room of the sweet shop to a professor. Meanwhile Slip is preoccupied with entering their car in an auto race to raise enough money to help Louie pay his bills. They don't have any luck with the car until Sach invents a formula that makes the car go faster. A crooked gambler tries to steal the formula from them, with no luck. Slip enters into another race, but has to start the race without the formula in the car as Sach was making another batch. When Sach reaches him in the middle of the race and puts the formula in the gas tank the cars begins to accelerate...only in reverse! Sach and Slip then continue the race in reverse and wind up winning. Sach then realizes why the formula didn't work as it did before...the seltzer that he added to the formula was flat!

Production

The race scenes were filmed at the Ascot Park raceway in Gardena, California and were mainly unused scenes from The Roar of the Crowd, which was released by Allied Artists in the same year. It was also the first Bowery Boys' film released by Allied Artists, which was the new name of Monogram Pictures, the same company that all their previous films were released under.

The Bowery Boys

• Leo Gorcey
  Leo Gorcey
  Leo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo...
  
   as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
• Huntz Hall
  Huntz Hall
  Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the "Dead End Kids" movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces , which gave way to the "The Bowery Boys" movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in...
  
   as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
• David Gorcey
  David Gorcey
  David Gorcey was an American actor and comedian best known as being a member of the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. He was the younger brother of Dead End Kids member Leo Gorcey.-Career:...
  
   as Chuck (Credited as David Condon)
• Bennie Bartlett as Butch

Remaining cast

• Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
• Robert Lowery
  Robert Lowery (actor)
  Robert Lowery was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in over seventy films.-Early life:...
  
   as Skid Wilson
• Jane Easton as Bobbie Lane
• Leon Belasco
  Leon Belasco
  Leon Belasco was a Russian-American musician and actor who had a 60-year career in film and television from the 1920s to the 1980s, appearing in more than 100 films.-Musical career:Belasco attended St...
  
  as Prof. Bosgood Elrod