Corky of Gasoline Alley is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Edward Bernds and starring Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon, and Susan Morrow.[1] It is based on the comic strip Gasoline Alley by Frank King, and is the sequel to Gasoline Alley.
Plot
Elwood Martin (Gordon Jones), a brash extrovert with an aversion to work, come to live with Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his wife, Phyllis (Madelon Baker). He blunders about their house, and the diner owned by Corky Wallet (Scotty Beckett) and the fix-it shop belonging to Skeezix Wallet (Jimmy Lydon), creating havoc at every stop. Corky and his kid sister, Judy Wallet (Patti Brady) decide the only way to save the Wallet family from bankruptcy and insanity is to persuade the free-loading Elwood to move on. The latter then fakes an injured back.
Cast
- Scotty Beckett as Corky Wallet
- Jimmy Lydon as Skeezix Wallet
- Don Beddoe as Walt Wallet
- Gordon Jones as Elwood Martin
- Patti Brady as Judy Wallet
- Susan Morrow as Hope Wallet
- Kay Christopher as Nina Clock Wallet
- Madelon Baker as Phyllis Wallet
- Dick Wessel as Pudge McKay
- Ludwig Stössel as Dr. Hammerschlag
- John Dehner as Jefferson Jay (uncredited)
References
- ^ Dick p. 260
Further reading
- Bernard F. Dick. Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
