***SPOILERS*** The story takes place some 2,000 ago in old Bagdad when Hamud the Caliph of Bagdad found his magic lamp stolen from right under his nose in the royal palace! Sending out a search party to find the magic lamp it was finally tracked down 2,000 years later in of all places the Bowery in lower Manhattan! And what do you know the person who discovered and bought it, for two bits, at a thrift shop in the neighborhood for a birthday gift for Sweet Shop owner Louie Dumbrowsky was the Bowery Boys' own Horace Debussy Jones; known only as Sach to his friends!
The person who really steals the show is the Genie in the lamp who despite being from Bagdad speaks with a British accent and goes by the name of, what else, Genie. It's the hoods Tiny & Canarsie who want Louie to give up his lease who discover, together with Sach, that their's a Genie in the bottle, or lamp, and do everything they can to get their grubby hand on it. What makes things in the movie a bit complicated is that both Sach and his friend Slip make a wish that the Genie can only do his thing or magic only if they both agree to it! This not only sets up a number of hysterically funny scenes but is in fact insurance that both Sach & Slip will live to make their next "Bowery Boys" flick!
There's also a very interesting time travel sequence in the movie where both Sach & Slip are transported back to old Bagdad by the Genie only to find, despite all the belly dancers present, that their better off back home where they were before they wished themselves away: On a ledge 30 stories up with Tiny Canarsie Gus and their boss Duke Dolan trying to whack them! That's until fellow "Bowery Boys" Butch Chuck and the NYPD come to their rescue just before they were about to be dropped; Not from the script but the high-rise building!
P.S With all the wild and crazy antics in the film it was non other then mob boss Duke Dolan who by far got the worst of it! With Duke constantly getting banged up and hit over the head, like every 30 seconds he was on screen, he took the worst beating that I've ever seen since Ezzard Charles in his June 1954 15 round slug fest with World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano!
The person who really steals the show is the Genie in the lamp who despite being from Bagdad speaks with a British accent and goes by the name of, what else, Genie. It's the hoods Tiny & Canarsie who want Louie to give up his lease who discover, together with Sach, that their's a Genie in the bottle, or lamp, and do everything they can to get their grubby hand on it. What makes things in the movie a bit complicated is that both Sach and his friend Slip make a wish that the Genie can only do his thing or magic only if they both agree to it! This not only sets up a number of hysterically funny scenes but is in fact insurance that both Sach & Slip will live to make their next "Bowery Boys" flick!
There's also a very interesting time travel sequence in the movie where both Sach & Slip are transported back to old Bagdad by the Genie only to find, despite all the belly dancers present, that their better off back home where they were before they wished themselves away: On a ledge 30 stories up with Tiny Canarsie Gus and their boss Duke Dolan trying to whack them! That's until fellow "Bowery Boys" Butch Chuck and the NYPD come to their rescue just before they were about to be dropped; Not from the script but the high-rise building!
P.S With all the wild and crazy antics in the film it was non other then mob boss Duke Dolan who by far got the worst of it! With Duke constantly getting banged up and hit over the head, like every 30 seconds he was on screen, he took the worst beating that I've ever seen since Ezzard Charles in his June 1954 15 round slug fest with World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano!