Master Minds

MASTER MINDS-1949-In this entry into the Monogram Bowery Boys series, every time Sach (Huntz Hall) eats candy and gets a toothache he goes into a trance and can predict the future! Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Gabe (Gabriel Dell) exploit his dumb power at a carnival. Meanwhile a mad scientist (Alan Napier) wants Sach's brain for a giant hairy man called Atlas (Glen Strange in Jack Pierce make-up) he's experimenting on! Shades of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein!

 Creepy Skelton Knaggs is one of Napier's assistants and Jane Adams (who was Vicki Vale in the serial BATMAN AND ROBIN the same year) plays the scientist's nurse who tries to help Sach. The weird part occurs when the two patients have their brains switched and Sach winds up a snarling wild man, while Atlas takes on Sach's stupid mannerisms and (dubbed) voice! The rest of "the boys' return too (Billy Benedict, Benny Bartlett and David Gorcey). Also with Bernard Gorcey as Louie and Minerva Urecal. Jean Yarbrough once again directs. 

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