Working for the New York Daily Chronicle, Slip and the boys seek to expose rumored gamblers fixing sports events.Working for the New York Daily Chronicle, Slip and the boys seek to expose rumored gamblers fixing sports events.Working for the New York Daily Chronicle, Slip and the boys seek to expose rumored gamblers fixing sports events.
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Whitey
- (as Billy Benedict)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe seventh of 48 Bowery Boys movies released from 1946 to 1958.
- GoofsThe lawyer for the prosecution refers to the defendant's newspaper as a "slanderous rag." A lawyer should know the difference between slander (a verbal untruth) and libel (a printed untruth).
- ConnectionsFollowed by Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
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"It wasn't only the heat, it was the humility."
The seventh Bowery Boys film from Monogram has the boys getting into the newspaper business. Slip is an aspiring reporter and Sach is a bumbling photographer. Bobby, Chuck, and Whitey are all paperboys. Gabe is in his own side storyline working for gangsters (again). When Slip exposes the gangsters for fixing sporting events, they take a rather unusual step for a movie -- instead of having him killed, they sue his newspaper for libel! Now Slip and the boys have to get some photographic proof to back up Slip's story. It's a fun entry in the series with a little more plot than normal. The regular cast is great, as usual. Christine McIntyre and Nita Bieber (no relation to Justin) provide the pretty. Bernard Gorcey once again steals his few scenes as Louie the Sweet Shop Owner. It's a funny movie with many malapropisms from Leo Gorcey and lots of slapstick silliness from Huntz Hall and the others. One of my favorite bits is very early in the movie when we get a glimpse at the article Slip is writing titled "Pardon, But Your Slip Is Showing." The camera shows us what he's typed and he actually types like he speaks -- yer for your, Sanity Claus for Santa Claus, etc. Classic.
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- utgard14
- Dec 25, 2015
Details
- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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