The boys get mixed up with a race horse and crooked gamblers.The boys get mixed up with a race horse and crooked gamblers.The boys get mixed up with a race horse and crooked gamblers.
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William 'Billy' Benedict
- Whitey
- (as William Benedict)
David Gorcey
- Chuck
- (as David Condon)
Benny Bartlett
- Butch
- (as Bennie Bartlett)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis was Whitey's (William 'Billy' Benedict) last appearance in the series.
- GoofsThe first time the boys bring the horse to the racetrack to retrieve My Girl, Slip says "Whitey, you and Sach switch the horses - and do it with dispatch." Sach replies "I thought we were gonna do it with Tarzana," but there's no way at that point that Sach could have known the other horse is named Tarzana.
- Quotes
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: Si'down, make yourselves homely.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Hold That Line (1952)
Featured review
Bowery Boys #24
Crazy Over Horses (1951)
** (out of 4)
Rather bland entry in the series has the Louie being owed money by an old friend so he sends the boys out to collect but instead of cash they come back with a horse. It turns out this is a very special horse as gangsters plan on replacing it with a lookalike so that they can have the odds go up on a bad horse and then they'll race the quick one. Number twenty-four (if you're still counting) isn't all that memorable as we get a rather familiar story of the boys getting involved with a crooked scam and nothing here is one bit original or and we've seen it countless times before. The entire movie just had a very lazy feel to it as if everyone involved knew they weren't doing anything overly special and they just mailed everything in. The only sequence that comes off mildly entertaining is one where the boys charge into Louie's restaurant thinking that he has turned the horse into hamburger and what happens to the customer inside the store is pretty funny. Outside of that this is pretty weak all around. The most surprising thing is that the cast pretty much just sleepwalks through things. Leo Gorcey is once again back as Slip but he appears to be bored and many of his mixed up words simply aren't funny or too cleaver here. Huntz Hall continues to grow dumber and dumber but the screenplay really doesn't do him any favors. There's one interesting scene where Gorcey pretty much sends him packing but nothing ever really comes of it. The horse racing scenes are all boring as the supporting cast doesn't help much either and that includes Allen Jenkins in his supporting role. Heck, even Bernard Gorcey comes off rather tame this time out.
** (out of 4)
Rather bland entry in the series has the Louie being owed money by an old friend so he sends the boys out to collect but instead of cash they come back with a horse. It turns out this is a very special horse as gangsters plan on replacing it with a lookalike so that they can have the odds go up on a bad horse and then they'll race the quick one. Number twenty-four (if you're still counting) isn't all that memorable as we get a rather familiar story of the boys getting involved with a crooked scam and nothing here is one bit original or and we've seen it countless times before. The entire movie just had a very lazy feel to it as if everyone involved knew they weren't doing anything overly special and they just mailed everything in. The only sequence that comes off mildly entertaining is one where the boys charge into Louie's restaurant thinking that he has turned the horse into hamburger and what happens to the customer inside the store is pretty funny. Outside of that this is pretty weak all around. The most surprising thing is that the cast pretty much just sleepwalks through things. Leo Gorcey is once again back as Slip but he appears to be bored and many of his mixed up words simply aren't funny or too cleaver here. Huntz Hall continues to grow dumber and dumber but the screenplay really doesn't do him any favors. There's one interesting scene where Gorcey pretty much sends him packing but nothing ever really comes of it. The horse racing scenes are all boring as the supporting cast doesn't help much either and that includes Allen Jenkins in his supporting role. Heck, even Bernard Gorcey comes off rather tame this time out.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Sep 28, 2010
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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