Being in the wrong place at the wrong time makes Sach (Huntz Hall) the prime suspect in a bank robbery and it is up to Slip (Leo Gorcey) and the rest of the gang to clear him. With the help of the camera woman (Teala Loring) who snapped his picture at the time of the robbery outside the bank, the gang busts into the club of the gangster (Sheldon Leonard) they are sure was behind it. Posing as members of a rival gang who has never met Leonard's gang, the boys perpetuate every stereotype of every movie gangster they've ever seen with one doing a deliberately bad Edward G. Robinson impression and Loring going overboard as a floozie gun moll. This leads to hilarity as the diminutive Sach steps right up to one of Leonard's gigantic underlings and "gives him the woiks".
This entry gives pretty much all of the gang some moments to shine, one of the few times during this series that any of them other than Gorcey and Hall had anything vital to do. James Burke, who 99.9% of the time played a dumb police detective, does the same thing here, adding some great lines to the typical plethora of malapropisms that Gorcey gets to utter. His coin-flipping fake gangster reminded me of the cartoon gangster who on occasion would go up against Bugs Bunny. In fact, the more animated the boys get here, the funnier they are, and the conclusion results in hilarity as the dumb Moose (William 'Wee Willie' Davis) is made to think that he's swallowed an explosive that could blow him into little bits.
This entry gives pretty much all of the gang some moments to shine, one of the few times during this series that any of them other than Gorcey and Hall had anything vital to do. James Burke, who 99.9% of the time played a dumb police detective, does the same thing here, adding some great lines to the typical plethora of malapropisms that Gorcey gets to utter. His coin-flipping fake gangster reminded me of the cartoon gangster who on occasion would go up against Bugs Bunny. In fact, the more animated the boys get here, the funnier they are, and the conclusion results in hilarity as the dumb Moose (William 'Wee Willie' Davis) is made to think that he's swallowed an explosive that could blow him into little bits.