Sos Your Aunt Emma!

  • 1942




18 %

Sos Your Aunt Emma! is a 1942 English-language Action Comedy motion picture written by George Bricker, Edmond Kelso and Harry Hervey. The movie is directed by Jean Yarbrough and produced by Lindsley Parsons and Barney A. Sarecky. Aunt Emma Bates (Zasu Pitts), a spinster, visits the Big Town to a boxing match participated in by Mickey O'Banion (Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart), son of Emma's old fiancé who was himself a boxing champion. At the arena Emma sits next to Terry (Roger Pryor), a reporter who is trying to track down Rex Crenshaw (Irving Mitchell), lawyer for gangster Flower Henderson (Tristram Coffin), who has been kidnapped by rival gang-leader Gus Hammond (Douglas Fowley), and manager of Mickey. After the fight Emma is mistaken for a notorious gun-woman named Ma Parker, and suspected by Hammond's henchmen of working in the interests of Henderson. Mickey is shot during an altercation at Henderson's nightclub and is later kidnapped from the hospital by his manager's men and taken to an East Side outlaw. Emma, in an effort to free Mickey, and with the aid of Maris (Gwen Kenyon), Terry's fiancée, decides to pose as Ma Parker. Written by Les Adams. Sos your aunt emma! features Zasu Pitts, Roger Pryor, Warren Hymer, Douglas Fowley, Gwen Kenyon, Elizabeth Russell and Wheeler Oakman. Cinematography was done by Mack Stengler and editing by Jack Ogilvie. The movie has a running time of 62 minutes. It was released on 17th April 1942. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Monogram Pictures.

Release Date 17 APR 1942
Run Time 1 HOUR 2 MINUTES
Language

English

Genre

Action , Comedy , Crime

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