I've got to assume that many people have scored this movie a 10 simply because it's one of those movies that is SO bad it's fun to watch, though I really don't think it ever approaches the PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE level of rottenness that it is a 'must see' for bad movie aficionados. Or, maybe the die-hard Bela Lugosi fans are at work here, pumping up the ratings in an effort to immortalized their hero. All I know is that the Bowery Boys (also known as "the Dead End Kids") were an annoying and grade-C level group that NEVER could come close to even approaching mediocrity. So why the 10? Who knows--maybe it's all a big joke. It must be because this movie at best deserves a score of 4--and that's being mighty generous.
Huntz Hall's sister, Ava Gardner (she MUST have been adopted--there was no way she could have been related to this Neanderthal) is getting married. She and her husband are moving to a new home--unaware that a group of Nazis are using the basement of the house next door to produce anti-American propaganda!! Well, the boys come to the wrong house (the Nazi one) and get tangled up with the baddies.
While I am a fan of Bela Lugosi, he was largely wasted in the film--having very few lines and being hardly convincing as the leader of a group of Nazis. It's really a shame--as he could be pretty funny in supporting roles. As for Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey and the rest, they are the usual lovable idiots--nothing more. As far as I am concerned, after you've seen a couple of their post-Warner Brothers films, you've seen them all.
By the way, there were no ghosts--sorry to say.
Huntz Hall's sister, Ava Gardner (she MUST have been adopted--there was no way she could have been related to this Neanderthal) is getting married. She and her husband are moving to a new home--unaware that a group of Nazis are using the basement of the house next door to produce anti-American propaganda!! Well, the boys come to the wrong house (the Nazi one) and get tangled up with the baddies.
While I am a fan of Bela Lugosi, he was largely wasted in the film--having very few lines and being hardly convincing as the leader of a group of Nazis. It's really a shame--as he could be pretty funny in supporting roles. As for Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey and the rest, they are the usual lovable idiots--nothing more. As far as I am concerned, after you've seen a couple of their post-Warner Brothers films, you've seen them all.
By the way, there were no ghosts--sorry to say.