Review of Spook Busters

It's been 10 years since some of these boys first appeared together on Broadway in "Dead End", and now they are still haunting both NoHo and SoHo (on the East Side, of course) with their antics, driving Louis crazy and giving out the worst malapropisms since Laurel and Hardy insisted that you can bring a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. Here, they must deal with a mad scientist while playing exterminators and prevent their pal from having his brain switched with a gorilla's. (Who would be the loser there?) Veteran villain Douglas Dumbrille is the mad scientist here (Bela Lugosi must have been busy!) and is just right for the part; Vera Lewis, who played all sorts of nosy neighbors, landladies, aunts, etc. in Warner Brothers films of the 30's and early 40's, was still traipsing around to take on a part usually assigned in BB films to Minerva Urecal. This does look like the same set used three years previously in the similar "Ghost on the Loose", where it was Nazis the boys were chasing/running from instead of mad scientists. With few exceptions, the Bowery Boys movies just got worse and worse, but this is probably the last really recommendable one.