***SPOILERS*** With Mike Clancy owner of the Bowery's "Clancy Café" being told by his doctor that he needs to take a vacation out in the country before he pops off because of his acute asthma condition sleazy real estate agent Harry Shalby and his curvy secretary Dolly Owens, who are sipping on a cup of ice cold coffee at the café, see the perfect mark to unload their unsellable piece of real estate that they could't even give away for free.
Getting Clancy to put a down payment on the dilapidate Dolan house Shalby thinks he made a killing in the real-estate market. As it turns out the person whom Shelby may well have ended up killing is himself in that it's in the old Dolan house, belonging the late gangster Wee Willie Dolan, that there's stashed away the money from a bank robbery that he and his fellow hoods Snap Ziggie & Ernie, no relation to Snap Crackel & Pop, hid before he checked, by dying, out!
"Spook Chasers" is about the third or forth movie made by the "Bowery Boys" in their previous incarnations as "The Dead End & East Side Kids" and "Little tough Guys" about ghosts in a haunted house and the plot is by now really getting a bit both boring and repetitive. What's worth watching in the movie is a number of new member of the cast that includes Blinky as the fifth, including Sach Duke Myron & Chuck, member of the gang. There's also the sickly and very excitable Mike Clancy-Percy Helton-replacing the late Louie Dumbrowsky-Bernard Gorcey-and his Bowery Sweet Shop with his Clancy Café. It's there that the boys spend most of their time mooching off on banana splits and ice cream sodas as well as reading, without paying for them, the newspapers and magazine.
***SPOILERS*** The movie has both Shelby & Dolly Owens try to buy back the Wee Willie Dolan house from Clancy who's not willing to sell it back to them even at twice the amount he paid for it. Dolly then tries to find out where the remaining money, from the bank robbery, is stashed by giving Sach spiked lemonade so he'd tell her where it's hidden. Which in fact Sach knows as less about where it's hid as she does. The film builds up to it's less then exciting climax with Snap Ziggie & Ernie having it out with the "Bowery Boys" in the haunted Dolan House. This while two ghosts, really live persons covered with bedsheets, try to scare he boys into showing them where the stolen money is hidden!
Of course it's Sach who found the first stash of cash, by using his head, who accidentally finds the second and far larger batch of stolen and hidden money by him going around in circles and finally hitting the jackpot! That's before the cops came on the scene lead by Lt. Harris played by the "Advantures of Superman" TV series actor Robert Shayne, as Inspector Henderson, who had in his one big scene by far the best line in the film!
Getting Clancy to put a down payment on the dilapidate Dolan house Shalby thinks he made a killing in the real-estate market. As it turns out the person whom Shelby may well have ended up killing is himself in that it's in the old Dolan house, belonging the late gangster Wee Willie Dolan, that there's stashed away the money from a bank robbery that he and his fellow hoods Snap Ziggie & Ernie, no relation to Snap Crackel & Pop, hid before he checked, by dying, out!
"Spook Chasers" is about the third or forth movie made by the "Bowery Boys" in their previous incarnations as "The Dead End & East Side Kids" and "Little tough Guys" about ghosts in a haunted house and the plot is by now really getting a bit both boring and repetitive. What's worth watching in the movie is a number of new member of the cast that includes Blinky as the fifth, including Sach Duke Myron & Chuck, member of the gang. There's also the sickly and very excitable Mike Clancy-Percy Helton-replacing the late Louie Dumbrowsky-Bernard Gorcey-and his Bowery Sweet Shop with his Clancy Café. It's there that the boys spend most of their time mooching off on banana splits and ice cream sodas as well as reading, without paying for them, the newspapers and magazine.
***SPOILERS*** The movie has both Shelby & Dolly Owens try to buy back the Wee Willie Dolan house from Clancy who's not willing to sell it back to them even at twice the amount he paid for it. Dolly then tries to find out where the remaining money, from the bank robbery, is stashed by giving Sach spiked lemonade so he'd tell her where it's hidden. Which in fact Sach knows as less about where it's hid as she does. The film builds up to it's less then exciting climax with Snap Ziggie & Ernie having it out with the "Bowery Boys" in the haunted Dolan House. This while two ghosts, really live persons covered with bedsheets, try to scare he boys into showing them where the stolen money is hidden!
Of course it's Sach who found the first stash of cash, by using his head, who accidentally finds the second and far larger batch of stolen and hidden money by him going around in circles and finally hitting the jackpot! That's before the cops came on the scene lead by Lt. Harris played by the "Advantures of Superman" TV series actor Robert Shayne, as Inspector Henderson, who had in his one big scene by far the best line in the film!