If you can get past Sach putting an abandoned baby in a laundry room dryer and then the boys literally tossing the poor toddler around like a football, you might find some amusement in this enjoyable entry in the series. The plot has them taking in a baby abandoned by its mother and finding themselves as usual involved in so much more. She's running away from her greedy spinster aunts (the rough and tough Florence Auer and the smirking sweet looking Ida Moore) who want control of their late brother's estate and they need the child (whose father is never revealed) to do that. These evil old biddies (ironically named Faith and Hope) who look like church ladies seem as if they were gun molls in the gay 90's as they still keep a newspaper file on every criminal, including the comically named ones who come to demand a reward for finding the baby. Between the two domineering spinsters and the mobsters, the boys have their work cut out for them.
This is one of the more entertaining entries of the series, filled with unlikely bad guys and a cute premise. These are little old ladies you don't want to help across the street because they might push you into an open manhole or an oncoming vehicle as they pick your pocket. Ida Moore's smile could charm the skin off a snake (and she'd poison it with its own venom) so to see her playing a bad girl while looking so sweet is delicious. Florence Auer seems to have been cast since Minerva Urecal (a recurring presence in the Bowery Boys movies) was unavailable. The happy ending provides with the two scene-stealing octogenarians a very funny exit line.
This is one of the more entertaining entries of the series, filled with unlikely bad guys and a cute premise. These are little old ladies you don't want to help across the street because they might push you into an open manhole or an oncoming vehicle as they pick your pocket. Ida Moore's smile could charm the skin off a snake (and she'd poison it with its own venom) so to see her playing a bad girl while looking so sweet is delicious. Florence Auer seems to have been cast since Minerva Urecal (a recurring presence in the Bowery Boys movies) was unavailable. The happy ending provides with the two scene-stealing octogenarians a very funny exit line.