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The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 comedy film based on the short story by writer Damon Runyon. The black-and-white movie stars Bob Hope. The Christmas song "Silver Bells," sung by Maxwell, was introduced in the film. The film was directed by Sidney Lanfield and Frank Tashlin (uncredited - Tashlin was hired to finish the film). The story was also made as a movie in 1934 with a bit part for actress Ann Sheridan.

Plot

The Lemon Drop Kid (Hope) persuades a gangster's girlfriend not to bet on a horse. The horse ends up winning and now the gangster wants the Kid to pay him the $10,000 he would have won or The Lemon Drop Kid will be executed on Christmas Eve.

Cast

Bob Hope
as Sidney Melbourne (The Lemon Drop Kid)
Marilyn Maxwell
as 'Brainy' Baxter
Lloyd Nolan
as Oxford Charley
Jane Darwell
as Nellie Thursday
Andrea King
as Stella
Fred Clark
as Moose Moran
Jay C. Flippen
as Straight Flush

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