Four teenagers have a good racket stripping cars left on the road for parts, which they sell to junkyard owner Bruno VeSota. The insurance companies, in the person of Tom Brown -- teen star of the early 1930s -- are livid. The police are baffled. The kids are having a great time until the authorities catch up with them.
Arch Hall senior wrote, produced and appears in this as narrator and the radio reporter in on the police operation. His son, Arch Hall Jr., is the leader of the operation, commanding from his expensive, souped-up hot rod with a Ricky Nelson haircut, with occasional breaks to perform songs like "Monkey in My Hatband".
It's Leigh Jason's last time directing, Jack Ogilvie's last time editing, and Clark Ramsey's last credit as cinematographer. Their careers had collapsed along with the Hollywood system, and while they were all up-and-coming talent in the 1930s, this cheap independent production about how to organize a car-stripping gang is a sad coda to three careers.
Hall Sr. Would produce a few more comparatively poor movies, and continue to act for another decade and a half. He died in 1978, age 69.
Arch Hall senior wrote, produced and appears in this as narrator and the radio reporter in on the police operation. His son, Arch Hall Jr., is the leader of the operation, commanding from his expensive, souped-up hot rod with a Ricky Nelson haircut, with occasional breaks to perform songs like "Monkey in My Hatband".
It's Leigh Jason's last time directing, Jack Ogilvie's last time editing, and Clark Ramsey's last credit as cinematographer. Their careers had collapsed along with the Hollywood system, and while they were all up-and-coming talent in the 1930s, this cheap independent production about how to organize a car-stripping gang is a sad coda to three careers.
Hall Sr. Would produce a few more comparatively poor movies, and continue to act for another decade and a half. He died in 1978, age 69.