Live Wires
They'll Short-Circuit Your Funnybone!
Genres
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
65 min
Release Date
1946-01-12
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
5
Vote Average
5.5
Leo Gorcey
Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall
'Sach' Jones
Mike Mazurki
Patsy 'Pat' Clark
Bobby Jordan
Bobby
William Benedict
Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
William Frambes
Homer
Claudia Drake
Jeanette
Pamela Blake
Mary Mahoney
John Eldredge
Herbert L. Sayers
Bernard Gorcey
Jack Kane
6.3
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.
1947-08-13 | en
6.7
Mr. Hex
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
1946-11-09 | en
4.8
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.
1946-08-24 | en
6.5
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.
1947-11-22 | en
5.2
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
1954-06-06 | en
4.0
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.
1948-03-07 | en
6.0
Bowery Bombshell
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) 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 (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) 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.
1946-07-20 | en
4.7
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.
1948-06-27 | en
5.5
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.
1957-12-22 | en
6.1
Bowery to Bagdad
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
1955-01-07 | en
2.7
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.
1955-12-25 | en
5.1
Loose in London
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
1953-05-24 | en
6.7
Ghost Chasers
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
1951-04-29 | en
4.6
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.
1953-02-15 | en
4.0
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.
1954-03-07 | en
8.0
Bowery Battalion
Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
1951-01-24 | en
5.5
Blues Busters
The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
1950-10-29 | en
6.2
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.
1950-08-13 | en
5.0
Looking for Danger
Sach and the gang fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
1957-10-06 | en
5.0
Hot Shots
Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
1956-12-23 | en