A brutal murder in silhouette opens this installment of the "Bowery Boys" entry where found money by the boys leads to the ultimate visual of real money laundering. The money is wanted by the mobsters who killed for it, and by the police as evidence. But through the luck of their own stupidity, the boys are allowed to keep it, and now must figure out how to spend it while trying to keep the gangsters at bay.
Moderate entertainment from the gang that is dumber than a film reel of dissolving celluloid, this isn't dimmed for its preposterous plot and ridiculous antics. There's a quick spoof of psychological dream sequences that I wish had been slightly longer, and a mystery concerning how a gangster who pulls a gun at Louie's sweet shop as an unseen person plants a pill in his coke.
This has every stereotype known to the gangster film, including thug names like Lullaby and Lippy (played by Sheldon Leonard), a femme fatale out to squeeze the dough out of Leo Gorcey, and malapropisms that run the gamut of witty to downright stupid. So it's a mixed bag that is at least an improvement over "Angels Alley".
Moderate entertainment from the gang that is dumber than a film reel of dissolving celluloid, this isn't dimmed for its preposterous plot and ridiculous antics. There's a quick spoof of psychological dream sequences that I wish had been slightly longer, and a mystery concerning how a gangster who pulls a gun at Louie's sweet shop as an unseen person plants a pill in his coke.
This has every stereotype known to the gangster film, including thug names like Lullaby and Lippy (played by Sheldon Leonard), a femme fatale out to squeeze the dough out of Leo Gorcey, and malapropisms that run the gamut of witty to downright stupid. So it's a mixed bag that is at least an improvement over "Angels Alley".