Anyway, Miss (according to some sources) Kate Kelly (Queenie Smith) runs a rooming house called Mrs. Kelly's and some of the boarders include "Sach" (Huntz Hall), "Duke" (Stanley Clements), Chuck Andrews (David Gorcey as David Condon) and "Butch" (the very-much credited Danny Welton but a WHO? then and now.)"Sach" has become a camera fiend so, in the pursuit of some ready cash, "Duke" takes him and his photographs to the editor of the New York Morning Blade, Mr. Ray Vance (Tim Ryan.) He hires them to get some photos of gangland boss Frankie Arbo (Thomas B. Henry) but Mr. Arbo does not care to have his picture in the papers and dislikes cameramen for the same reason.
"Sach" and "Duke" pose as interior decorators in the penthouse of Mae Randall (Adele Jergens, who was billed above Marilyn Monroe in "Ladies of the Chorus, although the MM-revisionists don't seem to be aware of it nor accept it)in order to get photos of Arbo. Later, at Arbo's night club, the boys learn that the gangster is importing a tough hoodlum from Chicago---and no one in the East knows him. "Sach" and "Duke" lure the visiting gunman, Handsome Hal Lomax (Joe Downing, who must have replaced a handsome actor first cast in the role)to Mrs. Kelly's and trick him into staying there through false police calls.
"Sach" masquerades as Handsome Hal (and is at least as handsome as Joe Downing) and gets away with it, and he and "Duke" manage to get into Arbo's inner office with the Boss and his henchies, which, compared to the henchies in the earlier Bowery Boys films, are a sorry and wimpy lot, and the boys are cut into the gang's racket, which is counterfeit money.
Then Handsome Hal shows up and things are getting dicey for the boys until Handsome Hal's jilted sweetheart, Dolly Tate (Laurie Mitchell, indeed a dolly of the 50's) makes her appearance, and she is so put out with getting jilted by the not-handsome Handsome Hal that she ups and identifies "Sach" as the real Handsome Hal, and fingers Handsome himself as the impostor. Handsome taking up with two interior decorators may have been what hacked Dolly off the most.
"Sach" has been taking photos with a miniature camera hidden in his cigarette holder, but accidentally unloads the camera, and the film falls out, exposing the boys and the film. What a revolting development! The gangsters then shoot the boys dead and the film ends. Wait, that was some other film. Probably one of those non-Noir Noirs. Something else happens here.
"Sach" and "Duke" pose as interior decorators in the penthouse of Mae Randall (Adele Jergens, who was billed above Marilyn Monroe in "Ladies of the Chorus, although the MM-revisionists don't seem to be aware of it nor accept it)in order to get photos of Arbo. Later, at Arbo's night club, the boys learn that the gangster is importing a tough hoodlum from Chicago---and no one in the East knows him. "Sach" and "Duke" lure the visiting gunman, Handsome Hal Lomax (Joe Downing, who must have replaced a handsome actor first cast in the role)to Mrs. Kelly's and trick him into staying there through false police calls.
"Sach" masquerades as Handsome Hal (and is at least as handsome as Joe Downing) and gets away with it, and he and "Duke" manage to get into Arbo's inner office with the Boss and his henchies, which, compared to the henchies in the earlier Bowery Boys films, are a sorry and wimpy lot, and the boys are cut into the gang's racket, which is counterfeit money.
Then Handsome Hal shows up and things are getting dicey for the boys until Handsome Hal's jilted sweetheart, Dolly Tate (Laurie Mitchell, indeed a dolly of the 50's) makes her appearance, and she is so put out with getting jilted by the not-handsome Handsome Hal that she ups and identifies "Sach" as the real Handsome Hal, and fingers Handsome himself as the impostor. Handsome taking up with two interior decorators may have been what hacked Dolly off the most.
"Sach" has been taking photos with a miniature camera hidden in his cigarette holder, but accidentally unloads the camera, and the film falls out, exposing the boys and the film. What a revolting development! The gangsters then shoot the boys dead and the film ends. Wait, that was some other film. Probably one of those non-Noir Noirs. Something else happens here.