THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE
MONSTERS-1954-The (over-aged) Boys (in their 34th outing!)
want to get a nice place for local kids to play baseball. Slip (Leo
Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) contact a Dr. Gravesend (John Dehner)
who owns the lot. Of course Gravesend is actually a mad scientist
with a sister Amelia (Ellen Corby) who keeps a man eating plant, a
wacky scientist brother Anton (Lloyd Corrigan) and a niece Francine
(Laura mason) who's a vampire. Their butler Grissom (Paul Wexler; later the scary Indian head hunter in THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE)
sometimes becomes a hairy fanged monster. Gravesend wants Sach's pea
brain for his gorilla and the brother wants Slip's brain for his
robot. After terrorizing Sach, the robot has a fight with the gorilla
and Sach turns into a rather scary monster who almost kills Slip.
It's pretty dumb but it's probably the
one entry in this series that stands out the most because of the
horror setting (at least it did when I was kid!). Yet somehow I forgot to review it when I did a whole bunch of Bowery Boys movies a few years ago!The other regular
“boys” Chuck (David Gorcey) and Butch (Bennie Barlett) are there
as well as Bernard Gorcey as Louie. Director Edward Bernds (who made
JUNGLE GENTS with the team the same year) co-wrote it with usual BB
scribe Elwood Ullman.
Thanks for reading!
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