Crazy Over Horses

You can't give a heartless job to big hearted mugs like the Bowery Boys. When Louie (Bernard Gorcey) sends them to collect a debt from a struggling horse trainer, what do you think happens?

Before the Bowery Boys came on the scene they were known as the East Side Kids. The East Siders had a horse racing story of their own in "That Gang of Mine" from 1940, which I recommend for it's respectful handling of a black/white racial issue that's presented in the story.

The twenty-fourth Bowery Boys movie has the boys going to collect a debt for Louie and instead getting a race horse, which leads to them getting mixed up with gangsters. They were always mixed up with gangsters, it seems.

To cancel a debt owed sweet shop owner Bernard Gorcey (as Louis "Louie" Xavier Dumbrowsky), "The Bowery Boys" leader Leo Gorcey (as Slip Mahoney) and sidekick Huntz Hall (as Sach Jones) agree to take "My Girl" off the hands of series writer Tim Ryan (as Flynn). At first, they think "My Girl" is Mr.

***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" get themselves into the horse racing business when they try to collect $250.00 from a Mr.

In this Bowery Boys comedy we have little Louie Dumbrowsky (Bernard Gorcey) looking to collect an outstanding debt from a down-on-his-luck stable owner, so Slip and Sach (Leo Gorcey/Huntz Hall) arrange a meeting to make the pickup for him. When the boys meet the man, he makes them an offer to take "My Girl" as settlement instead of cash.

Crazy Over Horses (1951)** (out of 4)Rather bland entry in the series has the Louie being owed money by an old friend so he sends the boys out to collect but instead of cash they come back with a horse. It turns out this is a very special horse as gangsters plan on replacing it with a lookalike so that they can have the odds go up on a bad horse and then they'll race the quick one.

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Chuck (David Gorcey as David Condon), Butch (Bennie Bartlett) and Whitey (Billy Benedict) suddenly become the Mahoney Collection Agency when they learn that Flynn (Tim Ryan), stable and second-hand store owner, has owed $250 to Louie (Bernard Gorcey), Sweet Shop proprietor, for over two years.Flynn, who has a daughter named Terry (Gloria Saunders) persuades Slip to accept "My Girl," a horse, in payment for the debt.

Beautifully photographed by Marcel Le Picard, but otherwise this one comes across as a very routine Bowery Boys entry. As usual, at this stage of the series, we are treated to a massive amount of weak jokes and lots of other time-wasting dialogue.