Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

JoeKarlosi An entertaining addition to the Bowery Boys comedy series has Slip and Sach (Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall) accidentally witnessing a murder in a hotel room window through a telescope down on the street below. They alert their friend Gabe (Gabriel Dell) who has now graduated to the stature of a rookie police officer, but when the boys investigate the hotel there is no body to be found and Gabe is reprimanded by his superiors. It's then up to Slip and Sach to take on jobs as bellhops in the hotel to try and solve the mystery and prove what they saw. This is a good and satisfying chapter, with funny bits featuring Gorcey and Hall at the top of their game. Both actors have some strong moments...Gorcey is given some extra-humorous malapropisms to deliver with gusto, and Huntz has to get tough and even push Leo around in a scene where he pretends to be an ex-con. It's good to see Gabriel Dell put to solid good use in his part of a young policeman, and the roles in general are well cast this time around -- Frankie Darro, Lionel Stander and John Ridgely play the shady characters, with Fritz Feld as the hotel manager. This entry comes off as tighter and better polished than usual, and one wonders whether this was due in part to Reginald LeBorg taking over from William Beaudine as director. *** out of ****

sol1218 **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!

wes-connors Lazily entrepreneurial "Bowery Boys" leader Leo Gorcey (as Slip Mahoney) tries to sell passing pedestrians on peaks through a giant street telescope, erected outside "Louie's Sweet Shop". With Mr. Gorcey attracting no spenders, partner Huntz Hall (as Sach) hogs the viewing, but focuses on feminine figures instead of celestial orbs. When Mr. Hall aims the telescope at a nearby hotel, he is amused to see two men dancing together, and joins William "Billy" Benedict (as Whitey) for a brief two-step. Hall alerts Mr. Gorcey to the gay dancers - but, when Gorcey takes his turn to spy, the scene is revealed as a struggle, ending in murder! Witnesses Gorcey and Hall ask rookie officer and Bowery pal Gabriel Dell (as Gabe Moreno) for assistance, but he finds no evidence any murder was committed. With Mr. Benedict, David Gorcey (as Chuck), and Benny "Bennie" Bartlett (as Butch) helping, Gorcey and Hall go undercover as a couple of hapless hotel bellhops, to investigate. Hotel manager Fritz Feld (as Andre Schmidtlapp), ex-con Lionel Stander (as Hatchet Moran), and versatile Frankie Darro (as Ben Feathers) lead the guest cast. Genuinely funny, with Gorcey quipping "he was a very extinguished man" in the morgue, and Hall strangling several laughs out of the script.****** Trouble Makers (12/10/48) Reginald Le Borg ~ Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro

Leslie Howard Adams Plus Fritz Feld, Lionel Stander, Helen Parrish and the usual top-notch supporting cast of toughs and characters.Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel, blocks away. In spite of the fussy-and-fidget objections of the hotel manager, Andre Schmidtlapp (Fritz Feld), the Bowery Boys (including Frankie Darro and Billy Benedict with lines and David Gorcey and Benny Bartlett looking on...as usual) and their friend Police Officer Gabe Moreno (Gabriel Dell)search the murder room and find nothing beyond learning that the room is occupied by "Silky" Thomas (John Ridgely.) Police Captain Madison (Cliff Clark)reprimands Gabe for leaving his beat on a false alarm, but later tips from Slip and Sach help Gabe lead raids on Silky's gambling operations.The latter sends Gabe's former friend "Feathers" (Frankie Darro)to Gabe with a bribe offer but Gabe refuses. The boys read about the killing of a Professor Prescott and identify him as the man they saw murdered. Slip and Sach tell the professor's daughter, Ann Prescott (Helen Parrish), they will find her father's killers, and they get jobs as bellhops at the hotel. "Hatchet" (Lionel Stander), one of the gangsters, thinks Sach is a former cellmate and this causes a complication or two along the way.