Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
Acting
Huntz Hall's physical comedy steals every scene.
Writing
Snappy Bowery slang and rapid-fire insults.
Director
Phil Karlson
Leo Gorcey
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
Bobby Jordan
Bobby
William Benedict
Whitey
David Gorcey
Chuck
Teala Loring
Cathy Smith
Sheldon Leonard
Ace Deuce Baker
Daun Kennedy
Maizie (as Dawn Kennedy)
James Burke
Detective O'Malley
Vince Barnett
Street Cleaner
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)
Emmett Vogan
Mr. Johnson
Bernard Gorcey
Louie Dumbrowsky
Milton Parsons
Professor Schnackenberger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Bowery Boys were originally the Dead End Kids from 1937's Dead End, evolving through East Side Kids before this final incarnation.
The 'atom bomb' tagline cynically exploited nuclear anxiety for laughs just one year after Hiroshima — pure 1940s marketing audacity.
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