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Jalopy

Jalopy

You'll Blow Your Gasket howling at these dizzy whizzes of the racing world!

1953 1h 2mComedy

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.

2.7/5

TMDB score· 6 votes

Synopsis

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.

The vibe

super speedbowery boysauto racing

Behind it

William BeaudineWilliam BeaudineDirectorJack CrutcherScreenplayTim RyanTim RyanScreenplay

Cast

Leo GorceyLeo GorceyTerrence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz HallHuntz HallHorace Debussy 'Satch' Jones
Robert LoweryRobert LowerySkid Wilson
Jane EastonJane EastonBobbie Lane
Leon BelascoLeon BelascoThe Professor
Bernard GorceyBernard GorceyLouie Dumbrowsky
David GorceyDavid GorceyChuck
Benny BartlettBenny BartlettButch
Richard BenedictRichard BenedictTony, the driver
Murray AlperMurray AlperRed, the mechanic
Tom HanlonRace Announcer
Mona KnoxMona KnoxParty Brunet, dancing with Slip

Director

William Beaudine

Writers

Jack Crutcher, Tim Ryan

Release date

15 Feb 1953

Runtime

1h 2m

Studio

Monogram Pictures

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Where to watch · US

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Streaming data by JustWatch via TMDB.

The Bowery Boys Collection

From Dead Ends to the East Side and finally landing in Louie's Sweet Shop in the heart of the Bowery (3rd and Canal, natch!), there was no stopping these Boys! When understudy Leo Gorcey joined the ensemble of teen thespians on stage for the Broadway hit "Dead End", Hollywood soon followed with William Wyler taking the troupe in toto for 1937's film version. Personifying the grit and heart of the kid gangs sprouting up in city slums, these little wise guys quickly stole the nation's heart. Ably anchored by the central pair of Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, the kids moved from "preachment" and crime pictures to straight up comedy as The Bowery Boys - and the rest is history as the boys capered through scores of pictures for over two decades!

Live Wires

Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages to get a job with the District Attorney serving warrants, as does Sach. Through his job, Slip finds out that all is not quite kosher at his old construction company, and that his sister may be in danger.

2.8

Live Wires

1946

In Fast Company

The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.

3.4

In Fast Company

1946

Bowery Bombshell

Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey and Chuck 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 Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith 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.

3.3

Bowery Bombshell

1946

Spook Busters

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.

2.8

Spook Busters

1946

Mr. Hex

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

3.6

Mr. Hex

1946

Hard Boiled Mahoney

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.

3.4

Hard Boiled Mahoney

1947

News Hounds

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.

3.4

News Hounds

1947

Bowery Buckaroos

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.

3.3

Bowery Buckaroos

1947

Angels' Alley

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.

2.6

Angels' Alley

1948

Jinx Money

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.

2.8

Jinx Money

1948

Smuggler's Cove

Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.

2.6

Smuggler's Cove

1948

Trouble Makers

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

3.1

Trouble Makers

1948

Fighting Fools

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.

3.0

Fighting Fools

1949

Hold That Baby!

While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.

2.9

Hold That Baby!

1949

Angels in Disguise

Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.

3.0

Angels in Disguise

1949

Master Minds

When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.

3.2

Master Minds

1949

Blonde Dynamite

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into a male escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.

3.4

Blonde Dynamite

1950

Lucky Losers

Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.

3.3

Lucky Losers

1950

Triple Trouble

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

3.5

Triple Trouble

1950

Blues Busters

The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.

3.3

Blues Busters

1950

Bowery Battalion

Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

4.3

Bowery Battalion

1951

Ghost Chasers

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

3.4

Ghost Chasers

1951

Let's Go Navy!

The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.

4.0

Let's Go Navy!

1951

Crazy Over Horses

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers

3.3

Crazy Over Horses

1951

Hold That Line

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.

3.5

Hold That Line

1952

Here Come the Marines

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.

3.7

Here Come the Marines

1952

Feudin' Fools

Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers.

2.8

Feudin' Fools

1952

No Holds Barred

One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.

2.8

No Holds Barred

1952

Jalopy

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.

2.7

Jalopy

1953

Loose in London

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.

3.0

Loose in London

1953

Clipped Wings

Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.

3.5

Clipped Wings

1953

Private Eyes

After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.

3.9

Private Eyes

1953

Paris Playboys

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.

2.5

Paris Playboys

1954

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

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

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

1954

Jungle Gents

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.

2.6

Jungle Gents

1954

Bowery to Bagdad

The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.

3.2

Bowery to Bagdad

1955

High Society

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.

2.9

High Society

1955

Spy Chasers

Slip and the gang foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania.

4.0

Spy Chasers

1955

Jail Busters

Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story.

3.4

Jail Busters

1955

Dig That Uranium

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.

2.1

Dig That Uranium

1955

Crashing Las Vegas

An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.

2.9

Crashing Las Vegas

1956

Fighting Trouble

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.

3.7

Fighting Trouble

1956

Hot Shots

Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.

3.2

Hot Shots

1956

Hold That Hypnotist

When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.

2.9

Hold That Hypnotist

1957

Spook Chasers

Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.

2.5

Spook Chasers

1957

Looking for Danger

Sach and the gang fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.

2.9

Looking for Danger

1957

Up In Smoke

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.

3.0

Up In Smoke

1957

In the Money

The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.

3.3

In the Money

1958

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