Blues Busters

Oct 29, 1950

1h 7m

★ 5.5

The most riotous night club kings you've ever seen!

Overview

The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

Blues Busters Trailers

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Cast

Slip Mahoney

Leo Gorcey

Horace DeBussy 'Sach' Jones, aka The Bowery Thrush

Huntz Hall

Lola Stanton

Adele Jergens

Gabe Moreno

Gabriel Dell

Rick Martin

Craig Stevens

Sally Dolan

Phyllis Coates

Louie Dumbrowsky

Bernard Gorcey

Whitey (as William Benedict)

William Benedict

Butch

Buddy Gorman

Chuck

David Gorcey

Bimbo

Paul Bryar

Joe Ricco

Matty King

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

5.8

This Modern Age

Aug 29, 1931

A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

5.8

Garden of the Moon

Sep 23, 1938

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.

8.0

Bowery Battalion

Jan 24, 1951

Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

6.2

Triple Trouble

Aug 13, 1950

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

5.0

Blonde Dynamite

Feb 12, 1950

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.

4.0

Jungle Gents

Sep 5, 1954

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.

7.0

In the Money

Feb 16, 1958

The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.

5.3

Angels in Disguise

Sep 25, 1949

Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.

5.0

Hold That Baby!

Jun 6, 1949

While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.

5.0

High Society

Apr 17, 1955

Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out of his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.

4.7

Smuggler's Cove

Oct 10, 1948

Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.

6.4

Hard Boiled Mahoney

May 10, 1947

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.

6.1

Lucky Losers

May 14, 1950

Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.

5.0

Fighting Fools

Mar 17, 1949

The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.

0.0

Clipped Wings

Aug 14, 1953

Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.

4.0

Fake-Out

Nov 18, 1982

Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.

6.0

The Poor Little Draculin

Aug 24, 1977

After a long sleep, the vampire Draculin awakens only to discover that his castle has been turned into a hip nightclub. In his attempt to correct this situation, he ends up getting involved in a diamond heist.

5.7

Trouble Makers

Dec 10, 1948

Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.

4.6

Crashing Las Vegas

Apr 27, 1956

An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.