This might be the worst Bowery Boys movie that I've seen. It was one of the last films for the Boys, there were only 3 more to go and I haven't seen any of them yet and I'm not sure if I really want to! By this point in the series(the 44th film?) Leo Gorcey, the main character in all these films!, had quit leaving Huntz Hall to be the star and if there's anything more annoying than a solo Hall I've yet to see it. It's like watching Costello without Abbott except not even that good! If that's not bad enough Leo's dad Bernard Gorcey(who played store owner Louie) had passed away so they replaced him with Percy Helton who also seems like a big step down in charisma. The story itself must have been done a hundred times by this point in time by everyone from The Three Stooges to Abbott & Costello about an old spooky house and some gangsters trying to spook our protagonists. Not exactly a laugh riot.
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