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24 August 1946 (USA)
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THE JOINT'S JUMPING With Crazy Killers! more
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The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a...
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Digging Up an Old Plot
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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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Ghost Busters (USA) (working title)
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68 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #11782)
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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.
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Followed by Blues Busters (1950)
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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