Trouble Makers

Dec 10, 1948

1h 6m

★ 5.7

EVERYBODY'S LAUGHING...BUT LEO! He's on a merry-go-round with murder...ten stories above the ground!

Overview

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

Genres

Crime

Comedy

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

Trouble Makers Trailers

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Cast

Slip Mahoney

Leo Gorcey

Sach, also called 'Chopper' McGee

Huntz Hall

'Silky' Thomas

John Ridgely

Police Officer Gabe Moreno

Gabriel Dell

Ann Prescott

Helen Parrish

Mr. Andre Schmidtlap - Hotel Manager

Fritz Feld

Ben Feathers

Frankie Darro

'Hatchet' Moran

Lionel Stander

Whitey (as Billy Benedict)

William Benedict

Chuck

David Gorcey

Butch

Benny Bartlett

Louie Dumbrowsky

Bernard Gorcey

Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.

6.0

Here Come the Marines

Jun 29, 1952

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

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.

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.

6.0

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

6.6

Ghost Chasers

Apr 29, 1951

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

6.7

Mr. Hex

Nov 9, 1946

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

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.

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.

5.2

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

2.7

Dig That Uranium

Dec 25, 1955

The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.

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.

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.