Jail Busters

Back in 1950, the Bowery Boys made "Triple Trouble"...a film where they deliberately got arrested so they could go to jail and work undercover to expose a crime ring.

Those other Bowery Boys besides Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall were lucky to get a line of dialog in any of the films throughout the series. The fact that one of them was David Gorcey, younger brother of Leo and other son of Bernard Gorcey didn't help either.

Jail Busters (1955) ** (out of 4) Number thirty-nine is yet another weak one. This time out Chuck is an undercover reporter who enters prison for an assignment but he's nearly beaten to death when he finds too much out.

This is my favorite Bowery Boys movie out of all they made in different incarnations. It was funny film and had some serious parts also.

Chuck, usually along just to fill one of the three back seats in the Bowery Boys jalopy, actually has a pivotal role in this entry in the series. He gets the role that was ordinarily played by Gabe Dell.

At last, David "Condon" Gorcey (as Charles "Chuck" Anderson) has a job! - he's working undercover, for the "New York Blade", to expose prison corruption.

So up till now, we knew Slip's real name was Terrence Aloysius Mahoney, and Sach was Horace Debussey Jones. In this picture, we learn that Chuck is the nickname for Charles Anderson, something even Sach didn't know, so we all found out at the same time.

In this surprisingly energetic later Bowery Boys flick, the thirty-ninth in the series, Chuck gets a job as a reporter and goes undercover -- wait wait wait! Did I just say Chuck?