Bowery Battalion
1951 film by William Beaudine
- January 24, 1951 (1951-01-24) (U.S.)
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Bowery Battalion is a 1951 comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring The Bowery Boys.[1] The film was released on January 24, 1951, by Monogram Pictures and is the twenty-first film in the series.
Plot
The military is performing a practice air raid on New York City. Sach convinces the boys that it is real and they go down to the recruiter's office and enlist. Meanwhile, Slip arrives at Louie's and finds out what just happened and goes down there to stop them. He is too late, as they have already joined, and is tricked into enlisting himself.
Louie tries to enlist as well, but is turned away as being too old. He was, however, in World War I and when he was there he invented the 'Hydrogen Ray', which did not work as intended. However, the army is using the plans for that ray as a decoy to try to capture spies that are at the local base…the same base the boys have been assigned to. The army decides to reinstate Louie to use him as bait for the spies. He ends up being kidnapped by the spies, and they try to get the secrets of the ray out of him. The boys come to his rescue and are rewarded with medals for bravery, and then sent to the brig for leaving their posts to rescue Louie.
Cast
The Bowery Boys
- Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
- Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
- William Benedict as Whitey
- David Gorcey as Chuck
- Buddy Gorman as Butch
Remaining cast
- Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
- Donald MacBride as Frisbie
- Virginia Hewitt as Marsha
- Russell Hicks as Hatfield
- Emil Sitka as the waiter
Home media
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume Four" on August 26, 2014.
References
- ^ Hayes, David (1982). The Films of the Bowery Boys. Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0806509310.
External links
- Bowery Battalion at IMDb
- Bowery Battalion at AllMovie
- Bowery Battalion at the TCM Movie Database
- Bowery Battalion at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
| Preceded by Blues Busters 1950 | 'The Bowery Boys' movies 1946-1958 | Succeeded by Ghost Chasers 1951 |
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