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Director:
William Beaudine
Writers:
Edmond Seward (original screenplay) and
Tim Ryan (original screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 August 1946 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Mystery more
Tagline:
THE JOINT'S JUMPING With Crazy Killers! more
Plot:
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Digging Up an Old Plot more (2 total)

Cast

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Leo Gorcey ... Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall ... Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Douglass Dumbrille ... Dr. Coslow
Bobby Jordan ... Bobby
Gabriel Dell ... Gabe 'Gabie' Moreno
William 'Billy' Benedict ... Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
David Gorcey ... Chuck
Tanis Chandler ... Mignon Moreno
Maurice Cass ... Dr. Bender
Vera Lewis ... Mrs. Grimm
Charles Middleton ... Mr. Stiles
Chester Clute ... Brown
Richard Alexander ... Ivan
Bernard Gorcey ... Louis Xavier 'Louie'Dumbrowski
Charles Millsfield ... Dean Pettyboff
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ghost Busters (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
68 min
Country:
USA
Language:
French | English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #11782)
Company:
Monogram Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: After Satch lights two candles, his hand shakes so bad it puts the match out. In the very next shot, there are three candles lit. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by Blues Busters (1950) more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Digging Up an Old Plot, 5 April 2009
3/10
Author: wesconnorsehny from Earth

Leader Leo Gorcey (as Slip) and "The Bowery Boys" graduate from extermination school, and get off on a ghost-busting assignment. Actually, Huntz Hall (as Sach) is the school "dunce", and doesn't really graduate; but, he goes along anyway. Eventually, Mr. Hall is strapped down on an operating table, where mad doctor Douglass Dumbrille (as Coslow) intends to cut out his brain - and implant it in a gorilla!

The "old dark house" plot was dug up fairly often by Gorcey's groups (earliest in 1940's "Boys of the City"), with surprisingly little success. This "Spook Busters" is neither spooky nor funny. In a desperate attempt to induce chuckles, the climax is done in slow-motion. Gabriel Dell and supporting team players Bobby Jordan (as Bobby), William "Billy" Benedict (as Whitey), and David Gorcey (as Chuck) valiantly try to help.

*** Spook Busters (8/24/46) William Beaudine ~ Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille

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