Well here you've got a Bowery Boys flick that comes at you from two different angles. There's your typical offering of goof-ball comic behavior from the gang, but then you throw in some very competent crooning by a dubbed Huntz Hall and the film takes it's entertainment value up a full notch. If I had to put a real singer's name to the voice, I would go with a blend of Bing Crosby and Dean Martin, with about a three to two edge going for Dino. Funny how the real singer, John Lorenz, never made it big on his own merits; to me he sounded pretty darn good. Maybe that was the problem. How many Crosby knock-offs can you have in an era?
So Sach (Hall) has his tonsillectomy and becomes The Bowery Thrush. I have to digress here a minute to concentrate on Sach's hospital bill. Six dollars a day for the room!!!!!, nine dollars each for the nurses!!! Then there's that exorbitant surgery bill for two hundred bucks! Lest you think this is fantasy land, my mother saved the hospital bill when she had me as a baby in the same year, 1950, that this flick came out. Ready for this - sixty four dollars! WITHOUT a national health care bill! By the way, did you check Sach's patient chart - 'Everything Normal (Except Patient)' - that was great!
Now you never let a good thing go away without capitalizing on it. As soon as Sach belts out with the tunes, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Gabe (Gabriel Dell) find a way to make it pay off. Transforming Louie's Sweet Shop into the Bowery Palace gives the boys a venue to present their new singing sensation in direct competition with the Rio Cabana across the street. After all, "Money is money, especially a lot of it". Was Yogi Berra in this film?
Of course the picture offers your garden variety hood that tries to steal Sach for the Cabana, and he's got his own singer Lola (Adelle Jurgens) to help collect Sach's signature on a new contract. Sach goes on an autograph rampage in Lola's apartment, but I had to do a double take when he chimes in about Lola's fruit dish - "You sure got tasty grapes!" And they got that past the censors!
Anyway, you knew it was bound to happen - Sach's voice goes back to normal and the entire singing jig is up. But it was more than fun while it lasted, and I have to say, this is one of the better Bowery Boys flicks you'll come across this late in the game. A tip to new IMDb viewers - the Bowery Boys movies are currently offered each Saturday mid-day on the Turner Classic Movie Channel as I write this, the added bonus being they're in order of original release date. If you can set that hour or so aside each weekend, you're in for a treat.
So Sach (Hall) has his tonsillectomy and becomes The Bowery Thrush. I have to digress here a minute to concentrate on Sach's hospital bill. Six dollars a day for the room!!!!!, nine dollars each for the nurses!!! Then there's that exorbitant surgery bill for two hundred bucks! Lest you think this is fantasy land, my mother saved the hospital bill when she had me as a baby in the same year, 1950, that this flick came out. Ready for this - sixty four dollars! WITHOUT a national health care bill! By the way, did you check Sach's patient chart - 'Everything Normal (Except Patient)' - that was great!
Now you never let a good thing go away without capitalizing on it. As soon as Sach belts out with the tunes, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Gabe (Gabriel Dell) find a way to make it pay off. Transforming Louie's Sweet Shop into the Bowery Palace gives the boys a venue to present their new singing sensation in direct competition with the Rio Cabana across the street. After all, "Money is money, especially a lot of it". Was Yogi Berra in this film?
Of course the picture offers your garden variety hood that tries to steal Sach for the Cabana, and he's got his own singer Lola (Adelle Jurgens) to help collect Sach's signature on a new contract. Sach goes on an autograph rampage in Lola's apartment, but I had to do a double take when he chimes in about Lola's fruit dish - "You sure got tasty grapes!" And they got that past the censors!
Anyway, you knew it was bound to happen - Sach's voice goes back to normal and the entire singing jig is up. But it was more than fun while it lasted, and I have to say, this is one of the better Bowery Boys flicks you'll come across this late in the game. A tip to new IMDb viewers - the Bowery Boys movies are currently offered each Saturday mid-day on the Turner Classic Movie Channel as I write this, the added bonus being they're in order of original release date. If you can set that hour or so aside each weekend, you're in for a treat.
