Master Minds

Nov 27, 1949

1h 4m

★ 5.8

THE CHILLS WILL ELECTRIFY YOU When The Bowery Boys Meet The Monster.

Overview

When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.

Genres

Comedy

Horror

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Cast

Slip Mahoney

Leo Gorcey

Sach

Huntz Hall

Gabe Moreno

Gabriel Dell

Dr. Druzik

Alan Napier

Nancy Marlowe

Jane Adams

Whitey

William Benedict

Louie

Bernard Gorcey

Atlas the Monster

Glenn Strange

Butch

Benny Bartlett

Chuck

David Gorcey

Hugo

Skelton Knaggs

Otto

William Yetter Sr.

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.

6.1

Bowery to Bagdad

Jan 7, 1955

The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.

6.0

News Hounds

Aug 13, 1947

Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.

6.0

Bowery Bombshell

Jul 20, 1946

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.

6.5

Bowery Buckaroos

Nov 22, 1947

The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.

5.2

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

Jun 6, 1954

Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire

4.0

Angels' Alley

Mar 7, 1948

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.

6.7

Mr. Hex

Nov 9, 1946

Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.

4.8

Jinx Money

Jun 27, 1948

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.

6.0

Hold That Line

Mar 23, 1952

The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.

4.0

Paris Playboys

Mar 7, 1954

Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.

4.6

Jalopy

Feb 15, 1953

Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.

5.4

Live Wires

Jan 12, 1946

Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages to get a job with the District Attorney serving warrants, as does Sach. Through his job, Slip finds out that all is not quite kosher at his old construction company, and that his sister may be in danger.

7.0

Let's Go Navy!

Jul 29, 1951

The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.

7.5

Private Eyes

Dec 6, 1953

After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.

5.5

Up In Smoke

Dec 22, 1957

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.

4.8

Spook Busters

Aug 24, 1946

The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.

5.1

Loose in London

May 24, 1953

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.