It's hard to imagine that a gangster bunch could be even dumber than the Bowery Boys. Consider this - in order to further implicate Sach (Huntz Hall) as one of the robbers who pulled off a bank heist, Ace Deuce Baker (Sheldon Leonard) came up with the idea to plant thousand dollar bills on his person as further evidence. Really?!?! Maybe they didn't need the money in the first place!
Well, just like a lot of B Westerns coming out of the era, the story didn't have to make a lot of sense for the young matinée fans of the day. Just stick the Boys in some goofy situation and watch them try to work their way out of it, it's a formula that worked every time. I really got a kick out of this one when Sach admitted that he had the brains of a moron. It went something like this - Slip: 'You don't have the brains of a moron'. Sach: 'Yes I do'. I'm still rolling over that one.
The story gets under way with the Bowery Boys attempting to help Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Sweet Shop avoid a default over a three hundred dollar debt. Scraping up just $4.95 among the five of them, it'll take some doing to come up with the rest. You know, they would have been home free if they just kept the first thousand dollar bill they found on Sach, but then it would have been a half hour movie. So instead, Slip (Leo Gorcey) impersonates big time gangster Midge Casalotti and attempts to intimidate the Baker Gang into implicating themselves in the bank job in order to collect a reward for their capture. And just for the record, Bobby Jordan does the world's worst Edgar G. Robinson impression here when the Boys hit the Flamingo Club.
The story comes to a mindless conclusion when Ace's strong-arm Moose McCall (Wee Willie Davis) inadvertently downs a glass of Professor Schnackenberger's (Milton Parsons) latest chemical concoction (don't ask), and the Baker Gang is subdued by the local cops. In a cool nod to an earlier incarnation of the Bowery Boys, the picture closes with Slip and Sach collared by the spare tire from their blown up jalopy - it read quite simply - 'DEAD END'.
Well, just like a lot of B Westerns coming out of the era, the story didn't have to make a lot of sense for the young matinée fans of the day. Just stick the Boys in some goofy situation and watch them try to work their way out of it, it's a formula that worked every time. I really got a kick out of this one when Sach admitted that he had the brains of a moron. It went something like this - Slip: 'You don't have the brains of a moron'. Sach: 'Yes I do'. I'm still rolling over that one.
The story gets under way with the Bowery Boys attempting to help Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Sweet Shop avoid a default over a three hundred dollar debt. Scraping up just $4.95 among the five of them, it'll take some doing to come up with the rest. You know, they would have been home free if they just kept the first thousand dollar bill they found on Sach, but then it would have been a half hour movie. So instead, Slip (Leo Gorcey) impersonates big time gangster Midge Casalotti and attempts to intimidate the Baker Gang into implicating themselves in the bank job in order to collect a reward for their capture. And just for the record, Bobby Jordan does the world's worst Edgar G. Robinson impression here when the Boys hit the Flamingo Club.
The story comes to a mindless conclusion when Ace's strong-arm Moose McCall (Wee Willie Davis) inadvertently downs a glass of Professor Schnackenberger's (Milton Parsons) latest chemical concoction (don't ask), and the Baker Gang is subdued by the local cops. In a cool nod to an earlier incarnation of the Bowery Boys, the picture closes with Slip and Sach collared by the spare tire from their blown up jalopy - it read quite simply - 'DEAD END'.