With the movie "Dead End", Warner Brothers brought us the so-called 'Dead End Kids'...a group of juvenile delinquents who were usually up to no good in this urban drama. Because they were popular, the studio brought them back several times. And then, something unusual happened...members of the group splintered and formed similar teen gangs with different studios (The East Side Kids and The Little Tough Guys). Then, after a few years, the original members of the two groups as well as some new members got together and they formed The Bowery Boys...and they went on to make a long string of films for Monogram. None of these were exactly intellectual nor original...but they were entertaining. Of the 48 films as the Bowery Boys, "Live Wires" is their first.
In this story, Slip (Leo Gorcey) is more puglacious than usual. Again and again, he loses jobs after he ends up taking a sock at someone. And, in sharp contrast to the rest of the series, Sach (Huntz Hall), is well-dressed, not especially stupid and responsible!! Eventually Slip gets a job working for the same folks who employ Sach and now his job involves repossessing cars....which isn't the easiest of jobs. But it gets worse when the boss asks them both to be process servers--to give out subpoenas for the District Attorney. Their first case involves a crazy giant of a man (Mike Mazurki---and not surprisingly, Slip is scared to death to serve him. But when he learns that his sister's boss is a crook and he's taking her out of the country, he knows he needs to get out of there but quick.
While this isn't the most cerebral of films, it is pretty entertaining...especially for a Bowery Boys flick. Nothing special here but with the gang acting less stupid and usual...well, that makes for a better movie.
In this story, Slip (Leo Gorcey) is more puglacious than usual. Again and again, he loses jobs after he ends up taking a sock at someone. And, in sharp contrast to the rest of the series, Sach (Huntz Hall), is well-dressed, not especially stupid and responsible!! Eventually Slip gets a job working for the same folks who employ Sach and now his job involves repossessing cars....which isn't the easiest of jobs. But it gets worse when the boss asks them both to be process servers--to give out subpoenas for the District Attorney. Their first case involves a crazy giant of a man (Mike Mazurki---and not surprisingly, Slip is scared to death to serve him. But when he learns that his sister's boss is a crook and he's taking her out of the country, he knows he needs to get out of there but quick.
While this isn't the most cerebral of films, it is pretty entertaining...especially for a Bowery Boys flick. Nothing special here but with the gang acting less stupid and usual...well, that makes for a better movie.