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This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Twelfth Bowery Boys movie from Monogram has Slip and Sach witnessing a murder through a telescope. But when they take the cops to the scene of the crime, the body is gone and no one believes there ever was a murder. So, naturally, they set out to investigate the matter and find the killer. An enjoyable entry in the series. Nothing to get excited about but good. Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall are their usual lovable selves. The rest of the Boys (Bennie Bartlett, David Gorcey, William Benedict) don't get a lot to do in this one. Gabriel Dell plays a cop this time and figures heavily into the plot. Bernard Gorcey returns as Louie and he's always a treat. Helen Parrish provides the pretty. John Ridgely and Frankie Darro are solid baddies, but it's Lionel Stander who steals the show as an ex-con who mistakes Sach for a criminal he used to know. It's not the best Bowery Boys picture but it's entertaining. The short runtime and quick pace help. Any movie where the bad guys have names like Silky, Feathers, and Hatchet is going to be a fun one.

ONCE AGAIN WE find ourselves amazed that so many of these BOWERY BOYS series entries are so much better than we remember them. This flies in the face of the usual disappointment we find when some film or other just doesn't live up to the expectations that our fallible, human memories so often conjure up.RIGHT FROM THE get go, we can see that this will be a delight for fans of the boys. The opening situation sets the stage. The establishment of the premise of having the boys at odds with a criminal enterprise, while not so very original or refreshing, is well founded and strengthened by the presence of former BB member, Gabe Moreno (Gabriel Dell)now being a rookie NYPD foot patrolman on their beat.THERE SEEMS TO be an even greater supply of great malaprop for 'Slips' dialogue than usual. These are a definite lifeline and a real plus for any BOWERY BOYS outing.ONE PARTICULAR ELEMENT that was a central tenet of the various DEAD END KIDS/EAST SIDE KIDS/BOWERY BOYS series was a sort of Urban Myth about "that Old Gang of Mine." It tends to romanticize the "honor" of being a tough, street-wise and under-educated member of class on the lower rung on the socio-economic ladder. It's always a sure fire route to success for on screen comedies.TO OUR WAY of thinking, this theory of ours is a sort of modern Urban society's version of the long held theory of "The Noble Savage." In l this highly flawed (and widely discredited) Anthropological theory, primitive peoples are inherently much more moral, loving and genteel than their much more civilized relatives (us).THERE IS SOME definite merit in this thesis, so think about it, okay, Schultz? (It's our own original idea-as far as we know!) OUR IMPRESSIONS OF why this was another superior outing are many. It has a larger supporting cast, which features names like: Frankie Darro, Lionel Stander, John Ridgely, Helen Parrish and Fritz Feld. The Bowery Boys were now minus Bobby Jordan; but as we said, Gabriel Dell was present to add his talents to those of "Slip" (Leo Gorcey), "Sach: (Huntz Hall) and the other regulars (Dave Gorcey, Billy Benedict, Bennie Bartlett and "Louie:-father Bernard Gorcey.MISSING FROM THE credits is the name of their usual Director. William "One Shot Bill" Beaudine was replaced by Reginald Le Borg, a more recent arrival from the European movie scene. His was a specialty in "B" horror flicks and he did a lot of television work in the 1950's.WHEN THE TOTAL output of the DEAD END KIDS/EAST SIDE KIDS/BOWERT BOYS movies are filmed and their total effect on our pop cultural pool is considered, we wonder why the team of Leo Gorcey & Huntz Hall is mot considered to be a legitimate Movie Comedy Team. along with Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, both the Brothers Marx and Ritz, the 3 Stooges, Wheeler & Woolsey, Clarke & McCullough, Noonan & Marshall.....................

**SPOILERS** The Bowery Boys get themselves involved in a murder by searching the night sky in search of new and uncharted planets in the solar system. Making a few bucks in having the public, for .05 a pop, use their super powerful telescope Sach together with Slip unwittingly peek into the 20th floor window of the swanky El Royal Hotel in midtown Manhattan and see a person being strangled to death!Slip & Sach having the local cop on the beat rookie patrolman and former Bowery Boy Gabe Mereno check out the room where the man was murdered in they find nothing as well as Gabe now in trouble of being suspended for leaving his post! It's only later that Sach and his pal Slip see in the local newspapers that the Dr. Frederick X Prescott, in a front page photo, was found murdered, strangled to death, in the Bronx that they put 2 and 2 together and realized that Dr. Prescott was the person they saw murdered at the El Royal Hotel! It turns out that Dr. Prescott was a major share holder in the El Royal who by him being murdered left the place under the ownership of his grieving daughter Ann!It also turned out that the late Dr. Prescott found out that gangster Silky Thomas was using his hotel to take illegal bets and do some loansharking on the side and was about to call the cops on him. This lead Silky to do in Dr. Prscott before he can kick him out of the place and have him arrested! We soon find out that the late Dr. Prescott was a major plastic surgeon who did a number of face-lifts on wanted and escaped hoodlum who the notorious Chopper McGee was one of! This was reviled by just released bank robber, from Sing Sing Prison, Hatchet Moran a guest at the hotel and good friend of Silky Thomas who mistakes Sach, now undercover and together with Slip working as a bellhop at the El Royal, for being the recently released for good behavior from the "Big House" the notorious Chopper McGee!It's when patrolman Mereno, with tips from the Bowery Boys, starts to put most of Silky Thomas' boys in the bookie and loansharking rackets out of commission that Silky and his top henchman Ben Feathers plan to set him up in Gabe leaving his post and be suspended for doing it in order to get him out of their hair as well as their illegal businesses. It's by Silky getting Gabe again suspended and possibly facing dismissal from the police force that gets the Bowery Boys into action in not only saving Gabe's job but putting and end to Silky's criminal enterprise!Sach who was mistaken by Hatchet Moran as his good pal and fellow prison cell-mate Chopper McGee is soon exposed, by Feathers, as the lame brain dope that he is. It's when Hatchet & Silky and a bunch of their hoodlum friend try to rub out Sach as well as Slip that they find out that they bit into a lot more then what they could chew! Not that Sach is that smart but luck, like in all the Bowery Boys films, alway seems to be on his side. Which is something that Silky & Co. will later find out the hard way!

Plus Fritz Feld, Lionel Stander, Helen Parrish and the usual top-notch supporting cast of toughs and characters.Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel, blocks away. In spite of the fussy-and-fidget objections of the hotel manager, Andre Schmidtlapp (Fritz Feld), the Bowery Boys (including Frankie Darro and Billy Benedict with lines and David Gorcey and Benny Bartlett looking on...as usual) and their friend Police Officer Gabe Moreno (Gabriel Dell)search the murder room and find nothing beyond learning that the room is occupied by "Silky" Thomas (John Ridgely.) Police Captain Madison (Cliff Clark)reprimands Gabe for leaving his beat on a false alarm, but later tips from Slip and Sach help Gabe lead raids on Silky's gambling operations.The latter sends Gabe's former friend "Feathers" (Frankie Darro)to Gabe with a bribe offer but Gabe refuses. The boys read about the killing of a Professor Prescott and identify him as the man they saw murdered. Slip and Sach tell the professor's daughter, Ann Prescott (Helen Parrish), they will find her father's killers, and they get jobs as bellhops at the hotel. "Hatchet" (Lionel Stander), one of the gangsters, thinks Sach is a former cellmate and this causes a complication or two along the way.