This Bowery Boys "comedy" seems all set to revisit gags from earlier episodes, such as Sach's conk-on-the-head routines, but fortunately that gag at least doesn't get off the ground. Nevertheless, Huntz Hall makes the most of an opportunity to perform a Charley's Aunt impersonation. The direction by Edward Bernds is dull in the extreme, and that certainly doesn't help ignite interest either! On the other hand, the cast is large – although our heroine, Joyce Holden, looks surprisingly wan – and the fact is that only William "Bill" Phillips makes any lasting impression. But the chase sequences through the long corridors of the health sanatorium are mildly amusing and feature some adept stunt-work by a comedian in a wheel chair. So, if you groove on the Bowery Boys, you'll probably half-enjoy this one!
13 Reviews
"I think we better cross examine this human lie deflector".
classicsoncall2 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
The Bowery Boys writers recycled themes regularly and this film was no exception; here it's a mind reading gimmick performed by Sach (Huntz Hall). A few years earlier, Sach developed the power of predicting the future in "Master Minds", not exactly the same thing but close enough. Then in 1956 the same idea was put to use in "Crashing Las Vegas". In that one, Sach 'electrifies' his brain and comes up with the ability to see numbers swimming around inside his head, so his buddy Slip (Leo Gorcey) figures they ought to be able to cash in at the gaming tables in Sin City.
So with Sach 'wired for mental telegraphy' following an accidental punch in the nose in this flick, Slip decides to form the Eagle Eye Detective Agency to take advantage of this latest development. However in one of the most loosely written episodes in the pantheon of Bowery Boys films, plot elements seem to come an go at random because the mind reading angle really doesn't come into play too much as the story progresses.
Nor does the business with the stolen fur coat when sultry blonde Myra Hagen (Joyce Holden) shows up at Slip's office. OK, the bad guys are in the business of stealing furs, cutting them up, then dyeing and reselling them. Seemed like a lot of trouble to me, but then again, I'm not of a criminal mind. The cover used by the fur thieves involved the Rose Hill Health Farm as a front for their operation, again, a questionable idea given the circumstances.
One cool casting element in the picture was the inclusion of Myron Healey as one of the Rose Hill attendants who had a thing for Myra Hagen. Healey showed up in a whole slew of Western TV shows and movies, usually as a heavy, so seeing him here as a bit of a clueless nerd was a role I haven't seen him play before.
Another surprise this time also included something Slip said, and oddly, it wasn't one of his usual malapropisms. Referring to Sach's blowing up a safe to get at a letter that Myra Hagen left with them, he says "What do you think this is, Yucca Flat"? That location is one of the country's major nuclear test regions and often cited as the most nuclear-blasted area on the face of the Earth. So after thirty one Bowery Boys movies, we actually get a cerebral comment from Slip that makes sense! And wouldn't you know it, they only had to blow up the office to do it.
So with Sach 'wired for mental telegraphy' following an accidental punch in the nose in this flick, Slip decides to form the Eagle Eye Detective Agency to take advantage of this latest development. However in one of the most loosely written episodes in the pantheon of Bowery Boys films, plot elements seem to come an go at random because the mind reading angle really doesn't come into play too much as the story progresses.
Nor does the business with the stolen fur coat when sultry blonde Myra Hagen (Joyce Holden) shows up at Slip's office. OK, the bad guys are in the business of stealing furs, cutting them up, then dyeing and reselling them. Seemed like a lot of trouble to me, but then again, I'm not of a criminal mind. The cover used by the fur thieves involved the Rose Hill Health Farm as a front for their operation, again, a questionable idea given the circumstances.
One cool casting element in the picture was the inclusion of Myron Healey as one of the Rose Hill attendants who had a thing for Myra Hagen. Healey showed up in a whole slew of Western TV shows and movies, usually as a heavy, so seeing him here as a bit of a clueless nerd was a role I haven't seen him play before.
Another surprise this time also included something Slip said, and oddly, it wasn't one of his usual malapropisms. Referring to Sach's blowing up a safe to get at a letter that Myra Hagen left with them, he says "What do you think this is, Yucca Flat"? That location is one of the country's major nuclear test regions and often cited as the most nuclear-blasted area on the face of the Earth. So after thirty one Bowery Boys movies, we actually get a cerebral comment from Slip that makes sense! And wouldn't you know it, they only had to blow up the office to do it.
"As one Ubangi said to the other one: don't give me none of your lip."
utgard149 October 2016
Sach gets a punch in the face and he somehow gains the ability to read minds. They really weren't trying at this point, were they? Anyhoo, this is the thirty-second entry in the Bowery Boys series. This one has the gang opening a private detective business, using Sach's newfound mental power to get mixed up with gangsters and an attractive blonde. They'd been mixed up with gangsters and blondes before without the mind-reading angle so I'm not sure why they felt it was necessary. But a lot of these movies tend to center around Sach getting a special power or ability. Also in this entry we learn that Louie apparently has a back room to his little Sweet Shop that is big enough to be used as a gym. Lazy writing is lazy. It's not great stuff but there are some laughs here and there, mostly coming from Leo Gorcey's humorous malapropisms. Even as a fan of the Bowery Boys, I will admit at this point the series was getting tired and monotonous. The Boys were boys in name only (at least one has a receding hairline) and the plots were repeating themselves movie after movie with some superficial changes. Anyway it's watchable for fans but doubtful casual viewers will like it much.
Bowery Boys #32
Michael_Elliott1 December 2010
Private Eyes (1953)
** (out of 4)
The Bowery Boys Club is doing just fine in back of Louie's parlor but after Sach (Huntz Hall) is punched in the nose he grows the ability to read people's minds. Sach (Leo Gorcey) gets the bright idea to buy a detective agency and sure enough a beautiful blonde comes in asking for help and the boys soon find themselves battling crooks. If you've hung around the series long enough to reach this thirty-second film then you're not going to see anything you haven't already but the film moves along well enough for the fans. I think the first twenty-minutes are the best as the stuff dealing with the boys club will certainly have you flashing back to the East Side Kids days and the stuff with Sach getting beat up was rather funny. The early stuff dealing with Sach reading everyones mind actually had some well-written lines but once the entire subplot dealing with the crooks kicks in we get one tired joke after another. It's a real shame that everything was pretty straight-forward because there's enough material that they could have done to make this much better. Very briefly does Sach do his Sherlock Holmes impersonation so why they didn't keep this going is beyond me. They set up all sort of noir elements but do nothing with them. Instead we get the same boring joke over and over and the final slapstick dash through the health resort just falls on its face as we get the same gag over and over with the main one being men falling into a hot tub. Both Hall and Gorcey seem to be up for the events as both deliver fine performances with energy. Bernard Gorcey doesn't get much to do this time, although he at least gets a pie in the face. The rest of the cast are just so-so. PRIVATE EYES isn't a good film by any stretch of the imagination but it's certainly better than you'd expect from the thirty-second film in a series.
** (out of 4)
The Bowery Boys Club is doing just fine in back of Louie's parlor but after Sach (Huntz Hall) is punched in the nose he grows the ability to read people's minds. Sach (Leo Gorcey) gets the bright idea to buy a detective agency and sure enough a beautiful blonde comes in asking for help and the boys soon find themselves battling crooks. If you've hung around the series long enough to reach this thirty-second film then you're not going to see anything you haven't already but the film moves along well enough for the fans. I think the first twenty-minutes are the best as the stuff dealing with the boys club will certainly have you flashing back to the East Side Kids days and the stuff with Sach getting beat up was rather funny. The early stuff dealing with Sach reading everyones mind actually had some well-written lines but once the entire subplot dealing with the crooks kicks in we get one tired joke after another. It's a real shame that everything was pretty straight-forward because there's enough material that they could have done to make this much better. Very briefly does Sach do his Sherlock Holmes impersonation so why they didn't keep this going is beyond me. They set up all sort of noir elements but do nothing with them. Instead we get the same boring joke over and over and the final slapstick dash through the health resort just falls on its face as we get the same gag over and over with the main one being men falling into a hot tub. Both Hall and Gorcey seem to be up for the events as both deliver fine performances with energy. Bernard Gorcey doesn't get much to do this time, although he at least gets a pie in the face. The rest of the cast are just so-so. PRIVATE EYES isn't a good film by any stretch of the imagination but it's certainly better than you'd expect from the thirty-second film in a series.
the boys are p.i.'s
SnoopyStyle30 December 2023
Slip, Sach, and the other Bowery Boys are using Louie's back room for a kids clubhouse. After getting knocked out by a kid, Sach is able to tell what everybody is thinking. Private eye Eddie is leaving town and sells his business to the boys. A blonde damsel in distress rushes into their office. She fears someone is trying to kill her.
As with all Bowery Boys movies, none of this is meant to be taken seriously. So, it is pointless to dissect the case or any minutia of the story. It is an excuse to spoof the private eye genre. It's not the best or the smartest. It is the Bowery Boys after all.
As with all Bowery Boys movies, none of this is meant to be taken seriously. So, it is pointless to dissect the case or any minutia of the story. It is an excuse to spoof the private eye genre. It's not the best or the smartest. It is the Bowery Boys after all.
middlin episode of bowery boys
ksf-26 April 2020
Kind of in the middle of all the bowery boy films, Private Eyes has the usual cast of Satch (Hall), Slip (Leo Gorcey), Gorcey's real dad, and Gorcey's real brother. When Satch gets whacked in the head, he gets mind reading powers, and once they realize this, the gang tries to figure out how they can capitalize on it. they set up as detectives, and when they get a cute, young, blonde customer, she leaves before they can even get her name. it was actress Joyce Holden, who didn't stick around hollywood too long; she only stuck around another couple years after making this one. The blonde is Myra Hagen, and she has been kidnapped by the mob. so now the gang is also caught up with the mob. and Huntz Hall in drag. even bob hope and bing crosby occasionally did drag. Directed by Ed Bernds, who would be nominated for ANOTHER bowery boys film High Society... (not to be confused with the high society that was a terrible remake of Philadelphia Story.) Bernds had made TONS of films with the Three Stooges and Bowery Boys, so he certainly was a pro at comedy and timing. At one point, Slip smacks all three of the other guys across the face at once, in PERFECT three stooges fashion! this is a perfectly good (silly) chapter in the bowery boys arc, so if you like em, you'll like this one.
Strange men are following me! They'd be even stranger if they didn't!
sol121821 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS**** The "Bowery Boys" headed by Slip & Sach opened up a detective agency after Sach got popped in the schnoz by little Hurbie, whom he was teaching how to box, that gave him the power of reading peoples minds. With Sach now a walking and talking lie detector who can read the minds of anyone he comes in contact with there's no way his and Slip's detective agency, Eagel Eye Detectives, can't become a smashing success!
What in fact happens is that Sach loses his powers of intuition when he tried to blow up the office safe that he stupidly locked an important envelope, together with the safe's combination, into that client Myra Hagen gave him and Slip for safe keeping. The envelope was an insurance policy to keep Myra from getting knocked off by her boss Prof. Damon who runs the Rose Hill Health Farm outside the city. Myra wan't to quit Damon's criminal fur hijacking racket that his health farm is just a cover for. And the envelope contains dates times and places, as well as names, of all the hijackings of fur trucks that Damon and his fellow hoods were involved in.
Sach's mind reading act, which wasn't all that good to begin with, starts to get a little thin and soon seems to get lost halfway through the movie together with the envelope that Myra gave him. But his getting dressed up in drag,in order to get himself admitted in Damon's health farm, and looking like Lon Cheney in the movie "The Unholy Three", as the rich and a bit nutty Mrs. Abernathy is a laugh a minute that doesn't let up until the movie's over. As for Slip he does his best to keep up with his partner Sach by masquerading around as Sach's or Mrs. Abernathy's personal physician the eminent Dr. Hockenbocker from Vienna but in fact looking more like Mr. Moto.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** With the beautiful Joyce Holden as Myra Hagen in the film it's hard to concentrate on the plot until the action really starts getting out of control when Damon and his goons discover that both Mrs.Abernathy and Dr. Hockenbocker are working undercover as Sach & Slip to bust their fur counterfeiting racket! There's also the big boss who claims to be the president of the company that insures the stolen furs whom both Slip and Sach trust with their lives! That's until Sach's powers of mind reading suddenly comes back, courtesy of being belated again in the nose by little Hurbie, and discovers just what a phony and lying rat he really is!
P.S Check Emil Sitka as the man in the wheelchair at the health farm in the few scenes that he's in. Sitka in the little time that he's in the film provides far more laughs then Slip Sach as well as fellow "Bowery Boys" Chuck Butch and sweet shop owner Louie Dumbrowsky put together!
What in fact happens is that Sach loses his powers of intuition when he tried to blow up the office safe that he stupidly locked an important envelope, together with the safe's combination, into that client Myra Hagen gave him and Slip for safe keeping. The envelope was an insurance policy to keep Myra from getting knocked off by her boss Prof. Damon who runs the Rose Hill Health Farm outside the city. Myra wan't to quit Damon's criminal fur hijacking racket that his health farm is just a cover for. And the envelope contains dates times and places, as well as names, of all the hijackings of fur trucks that Damon and his fellow hoods were involved in.
Sach's mind reading act, which wasn't all that good to begin with, starts to get a little thin and soon seems to get lost halfway through the movie together with the envelope that Myra gave him. But his getting dressed up in drag,in order to get himself admitted in Damon's health farm, and looking like Lon Cheney in the movie "The Unholy Three", as the rich and a bit nutty Mrs. Abernathy is a laugh a minute that doesn't let up until the movie's over. As for Slip he does his best to keep up with his partner Sach by masquerading around as Sach's or Mrs. Abernathy's personal physician the eminent Dr. Hockenbocker from Vienna but in fact looking more like Mr. Moto.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** With the beautiful Joyce Holden as Myra Hagen in the film it's hard to concentrate on the plot until the action really starts getting out of control when Damon and his goons discover that both Mrs.Abernathy and Dr. Hockenbocker are working undercover as Sach & Slip to bust their fur counterfeiting racket! There's also the big boss who claims to be the president of the company that insures the stolen furs whom both Slip and Sach trust with their lives! That's until Sach's powers of mind reading suddenly comes back, courtesy of being belated again in the nose by little Hurbie, and discovers just what a phony and lying rat he really is!
P.S Check Emil Sitka as the man in the wheelchair at the health farm in the few scenes that he's in. Sitka in the little time that he's in the film provides far more laughs then Slip Sach as well as fellow "Bowery Boys" Chuck Butch and sweet shop owner Louie Dumbrowsky put together!
Watching the Detectives
wes-connors20 November 2010
Run by entrepreneurial unemployed Leo Gorcey (as "Slip" Mahoney), the back-room of "Louie's Ice Cream Parlor" hosts "The Bowery Boys Club" for young lads who need a place to learn, as Mr. Gorcey explains, "the manly art of self-defense." While sparring with little Rudy Lee (as Herbie), bent-nosed boxer Huntz Hall (as "Sach" Jones) acquires mind-reading powers, after a hit in the head. As he does in other Bowery boy adventures, Gorcey decides to use Mr. Hall's super-power for monetary gain. In this case, the old boys open the "Eagle Eye Detective Agency". Beautiful blonde Joyce Holden (as Myra Hagen) heats up the plot.
There is nothing new here, but it moves along. Hall's stunt double is obvious as he tries to blast open a safe. His mind-reading power doesn't fulfill plot potential. The recent emphasis on "Three Stooges"-type sound-effects slapstick is advanced; director Edward Bernds handled both "The Bowery Boys" and the Stooges. Fatherly Bernard Gorcey (as Louie Dumbrowsky) continues to muse, while second son David "Condon" Gorcey (as Chuck Anderson) and Benny Bartlett (as Butch Williams) are kept to a minimum. Best are the later bits with Gorcey as a bearded doctor, Hall as an old lady patient, and Edith Leslie as his anxious nurse.
**** Private Eyes (12/6/53) Edward Bernds ~ Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Rudy Lee
There is nothing new here, but it moves along. Hall's stunt double is obvious as he tries to blast open a safe. His mind-reading power doesn't fulfill plot potential. The recent emphasis on "Three Stooges"-type sound-effects slapstick is advanced; director Edward Bernds handled both "The Bowery Boys" and the Stooges. Fatherly Bernard Gorcey (as Louie Dumbrowsky) continues to muse, while second son David "Condon" Gorcey (as Chuck Anderson) and Benny Bartlett (as Butch Williams) are kept to a minimum. Best are the later bits with Gorcey as a bearded doctor, Hall as an old lady patient, and Edith Leslie as his anxious nurse.
**** Private Eyes (12/6/53) Edward Bernds ~ Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Rudy Lee
SACH THE MINDREADER ON STEROIDS!
tcchelsey7 March 2020
Don't miss this!
When Monogram Pictures became Allied Artists, the Bowery Boys series got a bigger budget and new talent (behind the scenes), and it showed. Actually, Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall decided to try out a new director with a different style and writer. They settled on Edward Bernds (as director) and Elwood Ullman as head writer, both behind many of THE THREE STOOGES shorts.
Here's the dirty secret... Gorcey and Hall didn't want to change "their" style. Tempers flared, Hall even threatened to walk out of the series. Both sides reluctantly gave in, and, as luck would have it, PRIVATE EYES became one of their funniest films. It actually was a cross between HARD BOILED MAHONEY, where the Boys become amateur detectives, and HOLD THAT BABY! (minus the baby), as they track kidnappers to a sanitarium.
10 STARS.
Best of it all has Slip dressing up as a European doctor (with thick accent and glasses to match) and Sach in drag (with lots of curls!). Special nod to the very funny Emil Sitka, long a foil for the Stooges. No doubt brought in by Bernds. Here he plays a dazed and confused patient in a wheelchair with no brakes?
Look for child actor Rudy Lee as Herbie. Rudy was terrific, a veteran actor who went on to appear regularly on the MICKEY MOUSE CLUB tv show. Shortly after this episode, he had a bit part in THE LONG, LONG TRAILER with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Rudy would show up again in the BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS as one of the kids in the neighborhood.
Interestingly, Ed Bernds noted the reason this film was so successful was Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall DID have some good material (ad libs and one liners) that they would toss in. At first, he was against it, later admitting their stuff --at times-- was better than his own comedy bits. Bernds added they would rehearse a lot, sort of toss routines back and forth until they got it right. This is the same thing Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello did for years.
Also, if you notice the goofy cartoon drawings at the beginning of each film, they were inspired by similar drawings Laurel and Hardy used (of themselves) in their films at Fox in the 1940s.
A real gem. Released via Warner Brothers, dvd sets containing 6 to 8 remastered episodes in each box. Thanks TCM for remembering the gang!
When Monogram Pictures became Allied Artists, the Bowery Boys series got a bigger budget and new talent (behind the scenes), and it showed. Actually, Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall decided to try out a new director with a different style and writer. They settled on Edward Bernds (as director) and Elwood Ullman as head writer, both behind many of THE THREE STOOGES shorts.
Here's the dirty secret... Gorcey and Hall didn't want to change "their" style. Tempers flared, Hall even threatened to walk out of the series. Both sides reluctantly gave in, and, as luck would have it, PRIVATE EYES became one of their funniest films. It actually was a cross between HARD BOILED MAHONEY, where the Boys become amateur detectives, and HOLD THAT BABY! (minus the baby), as they track kidnappers to a sanitarium.
10 STARS.
Best of it all has Slip dressing up as a European doctor (with thick accent and glasses to match) and Sach in drag (with lots of curls!). Special nod to the very funny Emil Sitka, long a foil for the Stooges. No doubt brought in by Bernds. Here he plays a dazed and confused patient in a wheelchair with no brakes?
Look for child actor Rudy Lee as Herbie. Rudy was terrific, a veteran actor who went on to appear regularly on the MICKEY MOUSE CLUB tv show. Shortly after this episode, he had a bit part in THE LONG, LONG TRAILER with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Rudy would show up again in the BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS as one of the kids in the neighborhood.
Interestingly, Ed Bernds noted the reason this film was so successful was Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall DID have some good material (ad libs and one liners) that they would toss in. At first, he was against it, later admitting their stuff --at times-- was better than his own comedy bits. Bernds added they would rehearse a lot, sort of toss routines back and forth until they got it right. This is the same thing Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello did for years.
Also, if you notice the goofy cartoon drawings at the beginning of each film, they were inspired by similar drawings Laurel and Hardy used (of themselves) in their films at Fox in the 1940s.
A real gem. Released via Warner Brothers, dvd sets containing 6 to 8 remastered episodes in each box. Thanks TCM for remembering the gang!
If you could read their minds, you'd be overloaded with blank space!
mark.waltz8 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
One day, I'm going to watch all of the Esdt Side Kids/Bowery Boys movies and write down all the malapropisms that these eternal non-juvenile delinquents spout. In this one, Sach (Huntz Hall) begins to read minds, and as a result, they make a "preposition" to a local detective selling his agency, creating the "Eagle Eye Detective Agency" where they take on a case from a typical femme fatal who claims she's being followed. But when she suddenly vanishes, a real mystery begins, and it's up to Hall and gang leader Leo Gorcey to crack it. "What do expect from my little brain? Miracles?", Sach asks in one of his brightest comments. Just because he reads minds doesn't mean that he always understands what that person is thinking!
Surrounded by the usual oddballs in and outside of Bernard Gorcey's soda shop, this is standard fare in the series that had a few that ranked a bit above average. This entry of course provides enough passable laughs and adventure but isn't anything special. One uncomfortably comic moment shows Hall making a homemade bomb, but it's done with such naivete that you know that it'll have the same impact as the coyote from the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" cartoons. Decades later, these sitcom like programmers provide a lot of innocent fun: memories for the old timers who saw them in their original release or early TV airings, or discoveries from TCM and home video.
Surrounded by the usual oddballs in and outside of Bernard Gorcey's soda shop, this is standard fare in the series that had a few that ranked a bit above average. This entry of course provides enough passable laughs and adventure but isn't anything special. One uncomfortably comic moment shows Hall making a homemade bomb, but it's done with such naivete that you know that it'll have the same impact as the coyote from the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" cartoons. Decades later, these sitcom like programmers provide a lot of innocent fun: memories for the old timers who saw them in their original release or early TV airings, or discoveries from TCM and home video.
The Eagle Beak Detective Agency
bkoganbing26 November 2010
Private Eyes is exactly the next line of business that Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall find for themselves in their never ending search for careers. One of these days they'll find success.
Chick Chandler who has to leave town abruptly sells them his detective agency which is now available. Seems like a perfect fit because Huntz Hall after getting a whack on the noggin has the ability to read minds. It comes and goes though with each blow and the way he aggravates Gorcey, Leo has to keep his temper in check.
The usual clichés about private eye films is found in Private Eyes, but this one doesn't quite jell. A lot of Abbott&Costello material recycled and the climax which is in an insane asylum comes right out of the Bob Hope classic, My Favorite Brunette.
Chick Chandler who has to leave town abruptly sells them his detective agency which is now available. Seems like a perfect fit because Huntz Hall after getting a whack on the noggin has the ability to read minds. It comes and goes though with each blow and the way he aggravates Gorcey, Leo has to keep his temper in check.
The usual clichés about private eye films is found in Private Eyes, but this one doesn't quite jell. A lot of Abbott&Costello material recycled and the climax which is in an insane asylum comes right out of the Bob Hope classic, My Favorite Brunette.
Middle of the road Bowery Boys
pmtelefon20 January 2024
The Bowery Boys movies are a hit or miss kind of thing. On which side of the ledger would I place "Private Eyes"? I'm not sure. I guess I would have to place it on the "hit" side but it's a close call. The story isn't that good but the cast is fine. There aren't that many laughs but there aren't that many groaners either. "Private Eyes" was an okay way to kill an hour on a very cold Saturday morning. (IMDB has a six hundred character minimum so I have to ramble on for a while. I have seen a bunch of Bowery Boys movies over the last couple of years. I wouldn't say that I'm a fan but they're usually a pretty easy watch. Mostly because they're only a little over an hour.)
Running on empty by this time.
horn-526 April 2006
When Sach (Huntz Hall) is hit on the nose by Herbie (Rudy Lee), Sach develops a mystic-mind power. This prompts Slip (Leo Gorcey), Chcuk (David Gorcey as David Condon), Butch (Bennie Bartlett)and Louie (Bernard Gorcey) to buy the Eagle Eye Detective Agency...using, of course, Louie's money.
In waltzes Myra Hagen (Joyce Holden), who leaves with the boys a valuable fur coat and a sealed letter, to be given to the District Attorney, in the event anything happens to her. John Graham (William Forrest), makes his entrance following Myra's exit, and he poses as an insurance man, but is actually with the fur crooks, and he is given the coat but the Boys are unable to produce the letter, inasmuch as Sach, has wrecked the office by blowing up the safe, and the latter has vanished.
But, in the event it shows up, Professor Damon (Robert Osterloh), leader of the gang and operating a Health Farm as a cover, has his henchmen "Soapy" (William Phillips) and Al (Gil Perkins, whom some source evidently doesn't know and has him tagged 'unconfirmed')kidnap Herbie as a ransom against the delivery of the letter, which blows the lid on the gang.
Slip, disguised as a Viennese doctor, and Sach, as an invalid old woman wearing Mary Pickford curls, go the the Farm to rescue Myra---understandable---and Herbie.
In waltzes Myra Hagen (Joyce Holden), who leaves with the boys a valuable fur coat and a sealed letter, to be given to the District Attorney, in the event anything happens to her. John Graham (William Forrest), makes his entrance following Myra's exit, and he poses as an insurance man, but is actually with the fur crooks, and he is given the coat but the Boys are unable to produce the letter, inasmuch as Sach, has wrecked the office by blowing up the safe, and the latter has vanished.
But, in the event it shows up, Professor Damon (Robert Osterloh), leader of the gang and operating a Health Farm as a cover, has his henchmen "Soapy" (William Phillips) and Al (Gil Perkins, whom some source evidently doesn't know and has him tagged 'unconfirmed')kidnap Herbie as a ransom against the delivery of the letter, which blows the lid on the gang.
Slip, disguised as a Viennese doctor, and Sach, as an invalid old woman wearing Mary Pickford curls, go the the Farm to rescue Myra---understandable---and Herbie.
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