Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released May 13, 1955
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Filmmakers Releasing Org.
76 min. (Feature Film)
76 min. (Feature Film)
Joe Besser has a small role as a gas station attendant.
Urban youth gangs are creating a new kind of crime wave, and the police are making little progress in solving it. One of the gangs, the Wolf Pack led by Jamie Allison, throws an empty liquor bottle at a young couple and mortally injures their infant son. Capt. Lynn has difficulty finding leads, so the father turns vigilante by taking a new identity and moving into the inner city neighborhood where the gang is suspected to hang out. Now, Lynn not only has to find the guilty youths, but save the father from a destructive path.
One of the gang members is played by Stanley Clements, who shortly after this film, replaced Leo Gorcey in The Bowery Boys film series at Allied Artists.
Avg. Rating: 
[5.00/10]
[5.00/10]
Frank Lovejoy
Capt. Lynn
Keefe Brasselle
Sam Bennett
Cathy O'Donnell
Anne Bennett
Paul Dubov
Jamie Allison
Karen Sharpe
Tess
Stanley Clements
Marty
Joe Turkel
Pete Johnson
James Delgado
Frank
Paul Bryar
Matt, police detective
Aaron Spelling
Willie Hanson
Maidie Norman
Miss Lovett
Doug Henderson
Fingerprint technician
Joe Besser
Gas station attendant
Robert J. Stevenson
TV news broadcaster
Senator Estes Kefauver
Himself
Harry Essex
Director
Collier Young
Producer
James H. Anderson
Associate Producer
Harry Essex
Screenplay
William E. Snyder
Director of Photography
Stanford Tischler
Film Editor
Walter E. Keller
Art Director
Thomas A. Carman
Sound
Howard Wilson
Sound
Leith Stevens
Music Composer and Conductor
David Newell
Makeup
Eugene Anderson Jr.
Assistant Director
Robert Eggenweiler
Assistant Producer
Noel Coppleman
Assistant Film Editor
Art Klein
Sound Effects
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