One day, I'm going to watch all of the Esdt Side Kids/Bowery Boys movies and write down all the malapropisms that these eternal non-juvenile delinquents spout. In this one, Sach (Huntz Hall) begins to read minds, and as a result, they make a "preposition" to a local detective selling his agency, creating the "Eagle Eye Detective Agency" where they take on a case from a typical femme fatal who claims she's being followed. But when she suddenly vanishes, a real mystery begins, and it's up to Hall and gang leader Leo Gorcey to crack it. "What do expect from my little brain? Miracles?", Sach asks in one of his brightest comments. Just because he reads minds doesn't mean that he always understands what that person is thinking!
Surrounded by the usual oddballs in and outside of Bernard Gorcey's soda shop, this is standard fare in the series that had a few that ranked a bit above average. This entry of course provides enough passable laughs and adventure but isn't anything special. One uncomfortably comic moment shows Hall making a homemade bomb, but it's done with such naivete that you know that it'll have the same impact as the coyote from the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" cartoons. Decades later, these sitcom like programmers provide a lot of innocent fun: memories for the old timers who saw them in their original release or early TV airings, or discoveries from TCM and home video.
Surrounded by the usual oddballs in and outside of Bernard Gorcey's soda shop, this is standard fare in the series that had a few that ranked a bit above average. This entry of course provides enough passable laughs and adventure but isn't anything special. One uncomfortably comic moment shows Hall making a homemade bomb, but it's done with such naivete that you know that it'll have the same impact as the coyote from the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" cartoons. Decades later, these sitcom like programmers provide a lot of innocent fun: memories for the old timers who saw them in their original release or early TV airings, or discoveries from TCM and home video.