I was thinking about the opening theme song - 'Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here' - as the picture got under way. In this one, the gang is basically down to Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall), with an assist from Louie (Bernard Gorcey), as David Gorcey and Bennie Bartlett never make it past the opening sweet shop scene. With the Bowery Boys series of films nearly at an end, Gorcey and Hall carried almost all the weight in stories that were all too predictable by this time.
In this one, Sach is mistaken for a French science professor, Maurice Gaston Le Beau, who's disappeared some months earlier while working on a secret new rocket fuel. The set up allows a couple of United Nations execs from the General Intelligence Agency to whisk Sach back to Paris to finish his invention, while underworld figures attempt to steal the formula.
Hall is up for some double exposure in the flick, as he appears in both guises while confounding Slip and Louie as his own alter-ego. Along the way, he's served up a lot of face time with Le Beau's fiancé Mimi (Veola Vonn), and a retinue of girls with no purpose other than to go gaga over Le Beau's reappearance. Even the exiled 'real' LeBeau, stranded on a Pacific Island, is seen calling up kisses from the native girls as they tend to his every need.
With the series winding down and the routines having run their course, this one entertains about as well as most, but that's about it. Gorcey's one-liners and malapropisms are sparser here than in earlier films, and he's giving it his best shot. But after all those films together, I wonder why it took so long for Slip to come up with 'Sachula'.
In this one, Sach is mistaken for a French science professor, Maurice Gaston Le Beau, who's disappeared some months earlier while working on a secret new rocket fuel. The set up allows a couple of United Nations execs from the General Intelligence Agency to whisk Sach back to Paris to finish his invention, while underworld figures attempt to steal the formula.
Hall is up for some double exposure in the flick, as he appears in both guises while confounding Slip and Louie as his own alter-ego. Along the way, he's served up a lot of face time with Le Beau's fiancé Mimi (Veola Vonn), and a retinue of girls with no purpose other than to go gaga over Le Beau's reappearance. Even the exiled 'real' LeBeau, stranded on a Pacific Island, is seen calling up kisses from the native girls as they tend to his every need.
With the series winding down and the routines having run their course, this one entertains about as well as most, but that's about it. Gorcey's one-liners and malapropisms are sparser here than in earlier films, and he's giving it his best shot. But after all those films together, I wonder why it took so long for Slip to come up with 'Sachula'.