**SPOILERS** The Bowery Boys get themselves involved in a murder by searching the night sky in search of new and uncharted planets in the solar system. Making a few bucks in having the public, for .05 a pop, use their super powerful telescope Sach together with Slip unwittingly peek into the 20th floor window of the swanky El Royal Hotel in midtown Manhattan and see a person being strangled to death!
Slip & Sach having the local cop on the beat rookie patrolman and former Bowery Boy Gabe Mereno check out the room where the man was murdered in they find nothing as well as Gabe now in trouble of being suspended for leaving his post! It's only later that Sach and his pal Slip see in the local newspapers that the Dr. Frederick X Prescott, in a front page photo, was found murdered, strangled to death, in the Bronx that they put 2 and 2 together and realized that Dr. Prescott was the person they saw murdered at the El Royal Hotel! It turns out that Dr. Prescott was a major share holder in the El Royal who by him being murdered left the place under the ownership of his grieving daughter Ann!
It also turned out that the late Dr. Prescott found out that gangster Silky Thomas was using his hotel to take illegal bets and do some loansharking on the side and was about to call the cops on him. This lead Silky to do in Dr. Prscott before he can kick him out of the place and have him arrested! We soon find out that the late Dr. Prescott was a major plastic surgeon who did a number of face-lifts on wanted and escaped hoodlum who the notorious Chopper McGee was one of! This was reviled by just released bank robber, from Sing Sing Prison, Hatchet Moran a guest at the hotel and good friend of Silky Thomas who mistakes Sach, now undercover and together with Slip working as a bellhop at the El Royal, for being the recently released for good behavior from the "Big House" the notorious Chopper McGee!
It's when patrolman Mereno, with tips from the Bowery Boys, starts to put most of Silky Thomas' boys in the bookie and loansharking rackets out of commission that Silky and his top henchman Ben Feathers plan to set him up in Gabe leaving his post and be suspended for doing it in order to get him out of their hair as well as their illegal businesses. It's by Silky getting Gabe again suspended and possibly facing dismissal from the police force that gets the Bowery Boys into action in not only saving Gabe's job but putting and end to Silky's criminal enterprise!
Sach who was mistaken by Hatchet Moran as his good pal and fellow prison cell-mate Chopper McGee is soon exposed, by Feathers, as the lame brain dope that he is. It's when Hatchet & Silky and a bunch of their hoodlum friend try to rub out Sach as well as Slip that they find out that they bit into a lot more then what they could chew! Not that Sach is that smart but luck, like in all the Bowery Boys films, alway seems to be on his side. Which is something that Silky & Co. will later find out the hard way!
Slip & Sach having the local cop on the beat rookie patrolman and former Bowery Boy Gabe Mereno check out the room where the man was murdered in they find nothing as well as Gabe now in trouble of being suspended for leaving his post! It's only later that Sach and his pal Slip see in the local newspapers that the Dr. Frederick X Prescott, in a front page photo, was found murdered, strangled to death, in the Bronx that they put 2 and 2 together and realized that Dr. Prescott was the person they saw murdered at the El Royal Hotel! It turns out that Dr. Prescott was a major share holder in the El Royal who by him being murdered left the place under the ownership of his grieving daughter Ann!
It also turned out that the late Dr. Prescott found out that gangster Silky Thomas was using his hotel to take illegal bets and do some loansharking on the side and was about to call the cops on him. This lead Silky to do in Dr. Prscott before he can kick him out of the place and have him arrested! We soon find out that the late Dr. Prescott was a major plastic surgeon who did a number of face-lifts on wanted and escaped hoodlum who the notorious Chopper McGee was one of! This was reviled by just released bank robber, from Sing Sing Prison, Hatchet Moran a guest at the hotel and good friend of Silky Thomas who mistakes Sach, now undercover and together with Slip working as a bellhop at the El Royal, for being the recently released for good behavior from the "Big House" the notorious Chopper McGee!
It's when patrolman Mereno, with tips from the Bowery Boys, starts to put most of Silky Thomas' boys in the bookie and loansharking rackets out of commission that Silky and his top henchman Ben Feathers plan to set him up in Gabe leaving his post and be suspended for doing it in order to get him out of their hair as well as their illegal businesses. It's by Silky getting Gabe again suspended and possibly facing dismissal from the police force that gets the Bowery Boys into action in not only saving Gabe's job but putting and end to Silky's criminal enterprise!
Sach who was mistaken by Hatchet Moran as his good pal and fellow prison cell-mate Chopper McGee is soon exposed, by Feathers, as the lame brain dope that he is. It's when Hatchet & Silky and a bunch of their hoodlum friend try to rub out Sach as well as Slip that they find out that they bit into a lot more then what they could chew! Not that Sach is that smart but luck, like in all the Bowery Boys films, alway seems to be on his side. Which is something that Silky & Co. will later find out the hard way!