Well let the quips fall where they may as Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) would be fond of saying. Actually, a job as a newspaper reporter at the New York Daily Chronicle would have been the ideal gig for Slip, a place where he could continue his unrestrained assault on the English language.
You really have to admire the perspective these films of the era provided when it comes to the value of a buck. The story opens with Sach (Huntz Hall) sweating it out over a loan of thirty five cents that Bobby (Bobby Jordan) made to him. Think about that one for a minute. And Bobby was coming back at the end of the day to collect!
This time out, Slip, Sach and the gang get involved with gangsters running a sports betting racket, with Slip hoping to get the big scoop that nails the bad guys. Things never work out in a straight line for the Bowery Boys and it's no different here. Before it's all over, the hoods wind up in court undergoing cross examination by Slip - what??!!
Well just like a lot of B Westerns of the era, none of this had to make much sense for the matinée fans of the day. After all the shenanigans played out, youngsters watching these stories eventually got to see the Bowery Boys come out on top and the story could be counted on to help those young fans extinguish right from wrong (as Slip would say).
Followers of the Bowery Boys would get to see them hamming it up as gangsters once again a year later in 1948's "Angels in Disguise". Guess how that one starts out - Slip and Sach open the story as copy boys at, where else, The New York Daily Chronicle!
You really have to admire the perspective these films of the era provided when it comes to the value of a buck. The story opens with Sach (Huntz Hall) sweating it out over a loan of thirty five cents that Bobby (Bobby Jordan) made to him. Think about that one for a minute. And Bobby was coming back at the end of the day to collect!
This time out, Slip, Sach and the gang get involved with gangsters running a sports betting racket, with Slip hoping to get the big scoop that nails the bad guys. Things never work out in a straight line for the Bowery Boys and it's no different here. Before it's all over, the hoods wind up in court undergoing cross examination by Slip - what??!!
Well just like a lot of B Westerns of the era, none of this had to make much sense for the matinée fans of the day. After all the shenanigans played out, youngsters watching these stories eventually got to see the Bowery Boys come out on top and the story could be counted on to help those young fans extinguish right from wrong (as Slip would say).
Followers of the Bowery Boys would get to see them hamming it up as gangsters once again a year later in 1948's "Angels in Disguise". Guess how that one starts out - Slip and Sach open the story as copy boys at, where else, The New York Daily Chronicle!