utgard14 The Bowery Boys tackle the past life regression fad that was popular in the '50s thanks to the Bridey Murphy book and film. This is the second movie in a row where the series tried something different from the rut it had been in for a long time. I give it credit for trying but, unfortunately, it's too little too late. Without Leo and Bernard Gorcey, the laughs are all on Huntz Hall's shoulders. Hall is someone I found barely tolerable at the height of this series but I find him insufferable in these later entries. This is the forty-fourth Bowery Boys film, which is pretty amazing. But the end is near and that's pretty obvious by the lack of memorable scenes in the last few films. A chuckle here and there but, for the most part, these movies stink.This one has Sach undergoing hypnosis and remembering a past life. From there we get into some nonsense about a pirate treasure. Hall does his usual shtick, for those who enjoy him. Stanley Clements continues to be unimpressive as Slip Mahoney-wannabe, Duke. David Gorcey and Jimmy Murphy blend in with the wallpaper. Queenie Smith makes her final appearance as landlady Mrs. Kelly. She was a likable enough actress but never had the comedic talents of Bernard Gorcey or the chemistry with the rest of the cast that he had. Anyway, this isn't the worst of the post-Leo Bowery Boys movies. It might even be the best. That being said, it's really nothing special. I wouldn't bother with it unless you want to see every Bowery film at least once.

hero029 The last decade of Bowery Boy films are among the most beloved of all the films the gang had made. But be aware, after Leo Gorcey was fired, (his last film was Dig that Uranium) the seven remaining movies were not only a departure from the usual formula, they were weak, disjointed, and badly executed. By this time, Leo and Huntz were a well-oiled comedy team. Without Gorcey, and his late father who played Louie (he died in a horrible car crash), the very heart and soul of the series was no more. But the contracts called for 7 more films. The boys became men (wearing suits and now interested in women rather than girls, and focused on making money more than ever). This film is the worst of the bunch! A lost attempt to play on the Bridey Murphy phenomenon. Sach is taken back to his past life. This involves a treasure. The story doesn't resemble a Bowery Boys romp in the least bit. If you are a fan and have seen their best films you will be saddened to witness this installment.

dbborroughs One of the final Bowery Boys films when the only one left was Sach.When Louie died, he was played by Leo Gorcey's dad, the desire to keep making the films went out of Gorcey and some of the others. The studio however soldiered on with Huntz HAll and brought in a few others including a new character named Duke. The films are fine but really Bowery boys.The plot has the boys land lady deciding to be regressed to a past life... wanting to prove the guy a fraud they show up at a press conference with the doctor. A challenge is laid down to prove it all as real, however instead of Duke being put under, it's Sach who regresses back to the time of Blackbeard where he ends up with a map of the treasure. Everyone thinks its a joke until they find that what Sach says pans out. Its then a race to re-hypnotize Sach and then find the treasure.Good film is a little too slow even at an hour. It's an enjoyable time killer either way.The problem is that the film really isn't a Bowery Boys film even if we do get Sach. The boys were a different make up of characters and this, while good is something else entirely.Still its worth a look if you run across it.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" get involved with a phony regression back to an other lifetime parlor act when their sweet Irish landlady Kate Kelly decides to get a lifetime or pre-lifetime reading, for $200,00, from shyster hypnotist and quack doctor Simon Nobel.Deciding to expose this fraud to the public Duke and the boys crashed a news conference held by Dr. Nobel to expose him by volunteering to be hypnotized by the scoundrel. As it turns out it's Sach not Duke who ended up getting both hypnotized and regressed by Dr. Nobel to another lifetime. Dr.Nobel regressed Sach back to American Colonieal times in 1682 as tax collector for the English Crown Algy Winkle who get stuck in a local saloon as he's trying to collect back taxes from the local townspeople! After him beating the pants off Blackbeard the Pirate in a bean counting game Algy, or Sach in his previous incarnating, ended up winning Blackbeard's treasure map revealing where he hid millions of gold and jewelry from his latest pirate sea looting adventure.At first thinking all this regression talk on Sach's part is nothing but BS Duke and the boys check out Sach's story in the local library's historical archives and find out that it's all true! There in fact was an Algy Winkle tax collector back in the 17th Century and there also was a Blackbeard the Pirate back then as well! And even more astounding Blackbeard did in fact hide a shipload of gold silver and jewels just like Sach said that has never been recovered with Sach or Algy being the only one, by memorizing Blackbeards treasure map, who knows where the treasure is buried or hidden!***SPOILERS*** Nothing new here with the "Bowery Boys" minus their leader Slip Mahoney doing the right thing in exposing a fraud, Dr.Nobel, who as it turned out really had something going for him. Finding out about Blackbeard's hidden treasure Dr.Nobel and his hoods try to re-hypnotize Sach only to have him stay awake or go back farther in time, back to Roman times, then the Doc wants him to. It's almost by accident that the boys find out where the treasure is hidden: In a cave on the banks of the Hudson River. The "Bowery Boys" after dispatching Dr.Nobel and his hoods, with the famous routine #5, at the cave site to their surprised find out that the treasure wasn't that of Blackbeards at all! It in fact was the results of a Jewel robbery that took place not some 250 years ago in 1682 on the high seas but one that took place just six weeks ago in 1957 in the New York City Jewel & diamond district!