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Released March 20, 1942
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
76 min. (Feature Film)

Reformed safecracker Aloyisius "Butch" Grogan (Broderick Crawford) regularly babysits the infant son of widow Susie O'Neill (Virginia Bruce). When his former cronies come to him with a payroll job, Butch signs on because he is the only one experienced to handle the nitroglycerin needed to blow the safe... and then realizes that it's on the same night that he babysits. He can't find a substitute sitter, and decides that the only thing he can do is take the baby with him. Complicating matters are Susie's suspicious policeman boyfriend (Dick Foran), and a curious baby with an attraction to nitroglycerin.

Shemp costars as one of the safecrackers, a myopic gangster, similar to his Gunner character in AFRICA SCREAMS (1949).

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Avg. Rating: [9.00/10]
 
BUTCH MINDS THE BABY on IMDb

Virginia Bruce
Susie O'Neill

Broderick Crawford
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan

Dick Foran
Officer Dennis Devlin

H. Michael Barnitz
Michael O'Neill, the baby

Shemp Howard
Blinky Sweeny

Richard Lane
Harry the Horse

Tim Ryan
Mr. Dugan

Connie Leon
Neighbor

Ted Lorch
Neighbor

Porter Hall
Brandy Smith

Tom Kennedy
Philly the Weeper

Eddie Foster
Hot Horse Herbie

Billy Wayne
Bookie Bob

Russell Hicks
Carrington

Joe King
Police Lieutenant

Frank Moran
Jack the Beefer

Joey Ray
Bookie

Jimmy O'Gatty
Spanish John

Rosina Galli
Mrs. Talucci

Pat McKee
Nathan Detroit

Grant Withers
Cactus Pete

Lou Lubin
Acey Deucey

Cliff Clark
Police Captain

Paul McVey
U. S. Attorney Johnson

Wade Boteler
Policeman

Spider McCoy
Henchman

Al Bain
Henchman


Jules Levey
Producer

Damon Runyon
Original Story

Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography

Milton Carruth
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Ralph M. DeLacy
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director

Jess Moulin
Sound Technician

Charles Previn
Musical Director

Frank Skinner
Original Music

Howard Christie
Assistant Director


















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