This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

You can't give a heartless job to big hearted mugs like the Bowery Boys. When Louie (Bernard Gorcey) sends them to collect a debt from a struggling horse trainer, what do you think happens? Do the boys come home with the cash or do they come home with a horse? The correct answer obviously is number two, and after listening to the sob story of broke Tim Ryan, the boys surprise Louie with quite a horse of a different color than he was expecting. Of course this turns out to be a racehorse, and if another money-making scheme for those oh so desperate to achieve Bowery Boys. as what happens in most Bowery Boys movies where they end up in a situation like this, they end up involved with suspicious characters, in this case that veteran of Warner Brothers suspicious character, character actor Allen Jenkins. But Jenkins himself as an aging Bowery boy of a different era and he doesn't realize who he smashed up against.In my initial viewing of this several years ago, I gave this only a 2 rating out of 10 but after seeing it again to write this review, I re-evaluated it to give it a higher rating. Their films grow on you, and as dumb as they can be, there's always something amusing to find in them. Somewhere there has to be a list of all of the English words that they destroyed in their 20-year career on screen, from the film version of "Dead End" in 1937 to the last of the low-budget comedy at Monogram in 1957. when Turner Classic Movies Randy's in chronological order a few years ago on Saturday mornings, I was glued to my TV and look forward to each one. Fortunately they have come out in box set on DVD, and the chance to watch him over is easier than ever. This one may not be one of the most consistently funny, but it certainly has many moments of great amusement.

Crazy Over Horses (1951)** (out of 4)Rather bland entry in the series has the Louie being owed money by an old friend so he sends the boys out to collect but instead of cash they come back with a horse. It turns out this is a very special horse as gangsters plan on replacing it with a lookalike so that they can have the odds go up on a bad horse and then they'll race the quick one. Number twenty-four (if you're still counting) isn't all that memorable as we get a rather familiar story of the boys getting involved with a crooked scam and nothing here is one bit original or and we've seen it countless times before. The entire movie just had a very lazy feel to it as if everyone involved knew they weren't doing anything overly special and they just mailed everything in. The only sequence that comes off mildly entertaining is one where the boys charge into Louie's restaurant thinking that he has turned the horse into hamburger and what happens to the customer inside the store is pretty funny. Outside of that this is pretty weak all around. The most surprising thing is that the cast pretty much just sleepwalks through things. Leo Gorcey is once again back as Slip but he appears to be bored and many of his mixed up words simply aren't funny or too cleaver here. Huntz Hall continues to grow dumber and dumber but the screenplay really doesn't do him any favors. There's one interesting scene where Gorcey pretty much sends him packing but nothing ever really comes of it. The horse racing scenes are all boring as the supporting cast doesn't help much either and that includes Allen Jenkins in his supporting role. Heck, even Bernard Gorcey comes off rather tame this time out.

***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" get themselves into the horse racing business when they try to collect $250.00 from a Mr.Flynn who loaned if to sweet shop owner Louie Dumbrowsky and hasn't paid it back for some two years. Flynn who's business at his Sunnybrook Hunting and Riding Club has hit hard times only has this nag "My Girl" to use as collateral and trades it in for the $250.00 that he owes Louie.As thing are soon to turn out "My Girl" is a really fast filly whom race track fixer Randall is planning to switch with the filly "Tarzana" as a ringer, who in all her races never finished better then last, in the next race she's to run. With "Tarzana" expected to go off at odds of at least 100 to 1 it's a sure thing for Randell and his boys Duke & Weepin Willie are to score a big payday with what should be the odds on favorite "My Girl" finishing first as the broken down 100 to 1 nag "Tarzana".As you would expect in a "Bowery Boys" movie things don't exactly work out as planned by both the "Bowery Boys" and the Randall mob. There's a number of switches of both "Tarzana" and "My Girl" during the movie that makes it almost impossible,in both fillies looking like identical twins, to tell who's who in the stable or on the racetrack. In the end it's "My Girl" running as "My Girl" with the Randall mob betting against her in thinking that she's Tarzana who saves the day by winning the big race with that at least the 150 pound dead-weight and inexperienced as a jockey Sach, using a walkie talkie to communicate with his friend Slip, riding her to victory. It would have been hard enough for "My Girl" to win the race with an Eddie Arcaro or Willie Shoemaker, weighing under 115 pounds, on board but with the both nutty and 150 pounds Sach riding her that's a feat that's even beyond miraculous!

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Chuck (David Gorcey as David Condon), Butch (Bennie Bartlett) and Whitey (Billy Benedict) suddenly become the Mahoney Collection Agency when they learn that Flynn (Tim Ryan), stable and second-hand store owner, has owed $250 to Louie (Bernard Gorcey), Sweet Shop proprietor, for over two years.Flynn, who has a daughter named Terry (Gloria Saunders) persuades Slip to accept "My Girl," a horse, in payment for the debt. Flynn has been boarding the horse for months but has not been paid. "My Girl" is a really good race horse that is actually owned by racketeer Big Al (Ted de Corsia), who with Weepin' Willie (Allen Jenkins) and Swifty (Michael Ross), are planning to run the horse in a future race as a ringer for their long-odds and very-slow horse, Tarzana. The Bowery boys learn of this and switch horses. Big Al, Willie and Swifty swath back. This goes on until finally the Boys have "My Girl,", the good horse and Big Al and company have Tarzan, the nag, but think they have "My Girl." Tim Ryan could write one like this in his sleep, as could most of the fans of the series from this point on...beginning with...let's make a jockey out of Sach.