It's a shame that one of the funniest openings of a Bowery Boys movie (this one the first minus Leo Gorcey) ends up with hardly any laughs. Since Gorcey's Slip has slid out of the series, Sach (Huntz Hall) is now the only original cast member of the series left. He is now apparently a newspaper photographer with a camera that can detect movement and its prey, much like a snake. Today's paparazzi never had it so good!
Sach is out to get the scoop of the year by getting pictures of the inside of a New York mob, so he poses as a visiting Chicago mobster by the name of Handsome Hal, who is anything but. Typical dumb New York gangsters are abound, as is moll Adele Jergens in her 3rd Bowery Boys appearance. There really isn't much different in this than the previous 30 something entries in the series, although Queenie Smith's Miss Kelly is the cutest landlady since Elizabeth Patterson's Mrs. Trumball on "I Love Lucy".
Interesting note about visiting moll Dolly Tate (played by Laurie Mitchell)....her character's name is the same as Frank Butler's sidekick in "Annie Get Your Gun!". A battering ram of coconuts is the only other slightly amusing gag in the film.
Sach is out to get the scoop of the year by getting pictures of the inside of a New York mob, so he poses as a visiting Chicago mobster by the name of Handsome Hal, who is anything but. Typical dumb New York gangsters are abound, as is moll Adele Jergens in her 3rd Bowery Boys appearance. There really isn't much different in this than the previous 30 something entries in the series, although Queenie Smith's Miss Kelly is the cutest landlady since Elizabeth Patterson's Mrs. Trumball on "I Love Lucy".
Interesting note about visiting moll Dolly Tate (played by Laurie Mitchell)....her character's name is the same as Frank Butler's sidekick in "Annie Get Your Gun!". A battering ram of coconuts is the only other slightly amusing gag in the film.