Spy Chasers

The Bowery Boys are in fine form in "Spy Chasers". There are quite a few laughs in this movie. The story is good as is the supporting cast. This is one of the Bowery Boys movies that I will always stop and watch when I see it on.

Much later chapter for the Bowery Boys stories.. Leo Gorcey dropped out pretty soon after this, and they were ALL done in 1958. This one DOES have Gorcey's real dad and brother, and of course, Sig Ruman, who had a steady paycheck from the Marx Brothers' films. and watch for Leon Askin, who was General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes. when a princess runs into the shop to hide out from evil-doers, the BB band together to help out the royal family. But not everyone on the royal entourage is loyal to the royal! as usual, the boys stumble over themselves and there's the usual mix of physical and verbal mumbling about. and this one has an annoying little girl that shrieks. the usual antics, misunderstandings, goof-ups but thing usually work out by accident in a Bowery Boys film. Directed by the usual BB director, Edward Bernds. Its okay. shown occasionally on Turner Classics.!

This Bowery Boys adventure has the Royal family of of Truania asking Louie DOmbrowski for help in getting back on the throne. It seems Louies brother is a general the resistance for the exiled royal family. Since Louie is involved Sach and Slip get involved as well. Enjoyable but utterly mindless comedy survives purely on the good will the characters engender. If you've seen one Bowery Boys film you've seen most of them, all thats left really is the details. Here the details are kind of half way thought out which makes things kind of disposable. Worth a look if you run across it but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it.

This Bowery boys entry is one where the production code was slightly ignored as the "Mata Hari" character loses a dress and is not wearing a slip; she's wearing a teddy. The Old Production code prohibited showing the female form that revealingly, but that was a crazy idea. Leon Askin was here and playing a version of the middle European villain he always played; whether it was in Hogan's Heroes, What did you do in the War Daddy?, or One,Two, Three. The difference here was he was not facing Bob Crane or James Cagney; he lost to Huntz Hall. It is light hearted fare and should be taken as what it is, a B-movie and the equivalent cinematically of a hot dog.