Angels In Disguise

ANGELS IN DISGUISE-1949-In this more serious than usual Bowery Boys entry, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) investigate the murder of a neighborhood cop and wind up tangling with "The Loop Gang", a a bunch of Chicago gangsters. Slip narrates it after he and Sach have been beaten up. Gabe Dell is a police detective who's on the gang's trail. Mickey Knox and Richard Bennedict are gangsters but the real boss is a clean cut Joe College type (Edward Ryan). 

Billy Benedict, Benny Bartlett and David Gorcey all reprise their roles as Whitey, Butch and Chuck repectively. 

Joe Turkel, Jean Dean and Tristram Coffin are also in it as is Bernard Gorcey as Louie who had yet be the scene-stealer he would become in later story lines.

Director Jean Yarbrough would work with "the boys" again. A few years earlier he'd directed 3 Abbott & Costello vehicles, IN SOCIETY, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES and HERE COME THE CO-EDS. Co-scripter Charles Marion also worked on several A & C movies.

I'd like to know more about the other screenplay writer Gerald Schnitzer who after 1955 has only one isolated credit as as writer/director in 1967 but is listed on IMDB as being born in 1917 and as of this writing is still alive! According to Amazon.com he's written a autobiography called "My Floating Grandmother". 

Almost all of the Monogram series was produced by Jan Grippo, Leo Gorcey's manager.

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