'Aladdin's Lamp must be found'! declares the ancient Grand Poobah, as the scene quickly switches to that veritable Bagdad on the Hudson - New York City. (For purposes of this review I'll use the movie spelling, but I'm itching to stick that 'h' in there). Since this is a Bowery Boys movie, there's not a whole lot of exposition necessary to describe how the magic lamp made it down to Louie's. Let's just say the whole thing adds up to the fair sum of the quotient.
For story purposes, and not to play favorites, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) take joint custody of the Genie in the Lamp (Eric Blore), and spend the rest of the picture battling two sets of villains after the same prize. Ever notice the main hood always has a femme fatale moll ready to take on Slip and Sach? This time Velma Calhoun (Joan Shawlee) brings along her 'niece' Claire Culpepper (Jean Willes) to ply their own brand of magic on the boys.
There's also a nattily attired Arab (or would that be Persian) duo (Rick Vallin and Paul Marion) ready to take on the Bowery and Duke Dolan's (Robert Bice) gang. It's enough to drive a two thousand year old genie to drink; he just can't keep up with who owns the lamp without a scorecard.
It's mostly slap-dash action and general mayhem, and if I were writing the story, I would have ended it with Slip and Sach right there in the middle of that harem instead of back at Louie's. But then again, I'm not the Thief of Bad Gags.
For story purposes, and not to play favorites, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) take joint custody of the Genie in the Lamp (Eric Blore), and spend the rest of the picture battling two sets of villains after the same prize. Ever notice the main hood always has a femme fatale moll ready to take on Slip and Sach? This time Velma Calhoun (Joan Shawlee) brings along her 'niece' Claire Culpepper (Jean Willes) to ply their own brand of magic on the boys.
There's also a nattily attired Arab (or would that be Persian) duo (Rick Vallin and Paul Marion) ready to take on the Bowery and Duke Dolan's (Robert Bice) gang. It's enough to drive a two thousand year old genie to drink; he just can't keep up with who owns the lamp without a scorecard.
It's mostly slap-dash action and general mayhem, and if I were writing the story, I would have ended it with Slip and Sach right there in the middle of that harem instead of back at Louie's. But then again, I'm not the Thief of Bad Gags.