Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)


Directed by Edward Bernds
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall are a dumb, poor man's Abbott and Costello. Gorcey intentionally mispronounces words for comic effect while Huntz plays up the dumb angle. They go to the mansion of the wealthy Dr. Gravesend to get permission to use his vacant lot for a baseball field. Instead, a couple of scientists go after their heads, one to put in a gorilla the other to put in a robot. Grandma feeds a man-eating tree in the hallway. A sexy brunette daughter is a vampire. It's occasionally entertaining but too juvenile to make much of an impact.

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