Loose in London (1953)

The Bowery Boys find themselves in London, in an old mansion complete with a dungeon, an ominous bell tower and the ghost of an old hangman.

Director:

Edward Bernds

Writers:

Edward Bernds (screenplay), Elwood Ullman (screenplay)

Stars:

Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey

Cast

Cast overview:
Leo Gorcey	...	Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall	...	Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Bernard Gorcey	...	Louie Dumbrowsky
Angela Greene	...	Lady Marcia
Walter Kingsford	...	Earl of Walsingham
Norma Varden	...	Aunt Agatha
John Dodsworth	...	Sir Edgar Whipsnade
William Cottrell	...	Reggie
David Gorcey	...	Chuck Anderson
Benny Bartlett	...	Butch Williams
Rex Evans	...	Herbert
James Logan	...	Hoskins the Butler
Alex Frazer	...	J. Allison Higby - Solicitor
Charles Keane	...	Bly
Clyde Cook	...	English Cabbie

Storyline

Word comes to the Bowery that titled, great, great grand-uncle of Horace Debussy Jones, better known as Sach, is near death and has provided transportation to summon relatives from around the world. Sach and the Bowery Boys, Slip Mahoney, Butch Williams, Chuck Anderson and Soda Shoppe owner Louie Dumbrowsky, trade Sach's pre-paid first class ticket for lesser (much lesser) accommodations and embark for ye olde London towne. There, they find the old man, the Earl of Walsingham already surrounded by sinister Sir Edgar Whipsnade; Reggie, the obligatory Fop; the spinster Aunt Agatha; the young and seductive Lady Marcia; moronic Cousin Herbert, and Hoskins, the Butler. They, of course,are assembled in a plot to slowly poison the old Earl and to get rid of Sach and his pals.

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Plot Keywords:

bowery boys | plot | transportation | ticket | spinster | 

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Taglines:

It's a RIPPING RIOT of Noble Knuckleheads and Nutty Knights!

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 May 1953 (USA)

Also Known As:

Bowery Knights

Company Credits

Production Co:

Monogram Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

62 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The thirtieth of forty-eight Bowery Boys movies.

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Connections

Followed by Bowery to Bagdad (1955)

User Reviews

Turning Point in the Bowery Boys Series

It is with this film that the focus of the Bowery Boys movies becomes pure comedy. The change from gangster melodramas to comedy is gradual, and many of the Jan Grippo and Jerry Thomas films which precede this one point in the direction of comedy. Ben Schwab, the new producer of the series, wanted a purer sense of comedy. After doing "Jalopy", which used the regular writers and the regular director, William "One Take" Beaudine, Schwab replaced them with Ed Bernds and Elwood Ullman. These men had been working on Three Stooges shorts for years. Ullman was always a writer and Bernds had started as a sound effects man and had graduated to writer-director. The Bernds directed Columbia short comedies are usually superior to the ones produced at the same time by Jules White. Bernds and Ullman brought their short subject slapstick comedy style to the Bowery Boys and this produced the funniest movies in the series. Sure, the stories might have been better before, but the formula of someone walking in Louie's Sweet Shop and taking the boys out of their element was a great set-up for slapstick comedy. The focus of the films became Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall; Bernard Gorcey is given better material, but David Gorcey and Bennie Bartlett slip more into the background or even out of the films. Schwab also replaced longtime musical director Edward Kay, whose music consists of transformations of "Sidewalks of New York" and "B" western clichés, with the more modern and comic sound of Marlin Skiles.