This is a Halloween fave. The BOWERY BOYS graduate exterminating school(!) and go into business for themselves. Their first job is a haunted house and the rest is insane!
The Bowery Boys is actually a revamping of the East Side kids, which was a re-working of the Dead End Kids. Credit Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall for putting this all together, and becoming executive producers of the long series. I do agree with the last reviewer that these early films had more Bowery Boys, that being Bobby Jordan and Billy Benedict (as Whitey). Also Gabe Dell is introduced as their old pal who just return from the war. By the 1950s, it would be a Slip and Sach show, with the rest of the gang taking a back seat?
You'll also see that the guys employ lots of slapstick and there's a mad doctor. Kind of Three Stooges stuff, ya think? The guys did borrow a bit from the Stooges, and in fact were directed (in later years) by Edward Bernds, who also wrote material for the Stooges.
This is goofy stuff with the guys bumping into a nutty surgeon (played by Douglas Dumbrille) who is into brain transplatation. Guess whose brain? And it's all so sweet with a secret laboratory, grave stones that open and lead to hidden passages and a caged gorilla that gets loose. They had a lot of fun putting this one together.
Of course, the real deal star is Gorcey's narration and malaprops and Huntz Hall just being goofy. Best scene has Slip and Sach sprayed with ether and the fight scene is done in slow motion!
A gotsta' see.
Finally reissued on dvd by Warner Brothers box set and re-mastered, which have come down in price over the years. First issued on vhs in the 90s, and those tapes are now a collectors item.
The Bowery Boys is actually a revamping of the East Side kids, which was a re-working of the Dead End Kids. Credit Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall for putting this all together, and becoming executive producers of the long series. I do agree with the last reviewer that these early films had more Bowery Boys, that being Bobby Jordan and Billy Benedict (as Whitey). Also Gabe Dell is introduced as their old pal who just return from the war. By the 1950s, it would be a Slip and Sach show, with the rest of the gang taking a back seat?
You'll also see that the guys employ lots of slapstick and there's a mad doctor. Kind of Three Stooges stuff, ya think? The guys did borrow a bit from the Stooges, and in fact were directed (in later years) by Edward Bernds, who also wrote material for the Stooges.
This is goofy stuff with the guys bumping into a nutty surgeon (played by Douglas Dumbrille) who is into brain transplatation. Guess whose brain? And it's all so sweet with a secret laboratory, grave stones that open and lead to hidden passages and a caged gorilla that gets loose. They had a lot of fun putting this one together.
Of course, the real deal star is Gorcey's narration and malaprops and Huntz Hall just being goofy. Best scene has Slip and Sach sprayed with ether and the fight scene is done in slow motion!
A gotsta' see.
Finally reissued on dvd by Warner Brothers box set and re-mastered, which have come down in price over the years. First issued on vhs in the 90s, and those tapes are now a collectors item.