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Private Eyes (1953) is a English movie. Edward Bernds has directed this movie. Leo Gorcey,Huntz Hall,Bernard Gorcey,Robert Osterloh are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1953. Private Eyes (1953) is considered one of the best Action,Adventure,Comedy,Crime movie in India and around the world.
When Sach is hit on the nose by Herbie, Sach develops a mystic-mind power. This prompts Slip, Chuck, Butch and Louie to buy the Eagle Eye Detective Agency...using, of course, Louie's money. In waltzes Myra Hagen, who leaves with the boys a valuable fur coat and a sealed letter, to be given to the District Attorney, in the event anything happens to her. John Graham, makes his entrance following Myra's exit, and he poses as an insurance man, but is actually with the fur crooks, and he is given the coat but the Boys are unable to produce the letter, since Sach, has wrecked the office by blowing up the safe, and the latter has vanished. But, in the event it shows up, Professor Damon, leader of the gang and operating a Health Farm as a cover, has his henchmen "Soapy" and Al kidnap Herbie as a ransom against the delivery of the letter, which blows the lid on the gang. Slip, disguised as a Viennese doctor, and Sach, as an invalid old woman wearing Mary Pickford curls, go the the Farm to ...
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Private Eyes (1953) Reviews
Watching the Detectives
Run by entrepreneurial unemployed Leo Gorcey (as "Slip" Mahoney), the back-room of "Louie's Ice Cream Parlor" hosts "The Bowery Boys Club" for young lads who need a place to learn, as Mr. Gorcey explains, "the manly art of self-defense." While sparring with little Rudy Lee (as Herbie), bent-nosed boxer Huntz Hall (as "Sach" Jones) acquires mind-reading powers, after a hit in the head. As he does in other Bowery boy adventures, Gorcey decides to use Mr. Hall's super-power for monetary gain. In this case, the old boys open the "Eagle Eye Detective Agency". Beautiful blonde Joyce Holden (as Myra Hagen) heats up the plot. There is nothing new here, but it moves along. Hall's stunt double is obvious as he tries to blast open a safe. His mind-reading power doesn't fulfill plot potential. The recent emphasis on "Three Stooges"-type sound-effects slapstick is advanced; director Edward Bernds handled both "The Bowery Boys" and the Stooges. Fatherly Bernard Gorcey (as Louie Dumbrowsky) continues to muse, while second son David "Condon" Gorcey (as Chuck Anderson) and Benny Bartlett (as Butch Williams) are kept to a minimum. Best are the later bits with Gorcey as a bearded doctor, Hall as an old lady patient, and Edith Leslie as his anxious nurse. **** Private Eyes (12/6/53) Edward Bernds ~ Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Rudy Lee
If you could read their minds, you'd be overloaded with blank space!
One day, I'm going to watch all of the Esdt Side Kids/Bowery Boys movies and write down all the malapropisms that these eternal non-juvenile delinquents spout. In this one, Sach (Huntz Hall) begins to read minds, and as a result, they make a "preposition" to a local detective selling his agency, creating the "Eagle Eye Detective Agency" where they take on a case from a typical femme fatal who claims she's being followed. But when she suddenly vanishes, a real mystery begins, and it's up to Hall and gang leader Leo Gorcey to crack it. "What do expect from my little brain? Miracles?", Sach asks in one of his brightest comments. Just because he reads minds doesn't mean that he always understands what that person is thinking! Surrounded by the usual oddballs in and outside of Bernard Gorcey's soda shop, this is standard fare in the series that had a few that ranked a bit above average. This entry of course provides enough passable laughs and adventure but isn't anything special. One uncomfortably comic moment shows Hall making a homemade bomb, but it's done with such naivete that you know that it'll have the same impact as the coyote from the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" cartoons. Decades later, these sitcom like programmers provide a lot of innocent fun: memories for the old timers who saw them in their original release or early TV airings, or discoveries from TCM and home video.
"As one Ubangi said to the other one: don't give me none of your lip."
Sach gets a punch in the face and he somehow gains the ability to read minds. They really weren't trying at this point, were they? Anyhoo, this is the thirty-second entry in the Bowery Boys series. This one has the gang opening a private detective business, using Sach's newfound mental power to get mixed up with gangsters and an attractive blonde. They'd been mixed up with gangsters and blondes before without the mind-reading angle so I'm not sure why they felt it was necessary. But a lot of these movies tend to center around Sach getting a special power or ability. Also in this entry we learn that Louie apparently has a back room to his little Sweet Shop that is big enough to be used as a gym. Lazy writing is lazy. It's not great stuff but there are some laughs here and there, mostly coming from Leo Gorcey's humorous malapropisms. Even as a fan of the Bowery Boys, I will admit at this point the series was getting tired and monotonous. The Boys were boys in name only (at least one has a receding hairline) and the plots were repeating themselves movie after movie with some superficial changes. Anyway it's watchable for fans but doubtful casual viewers will like it much.
"I think we better cross examine this human lie deflector".
The Bowery Boys writers recycled themes regularly and this film was no exception; here it's a mind reading gimmick performed by Sach (Huntz Hall). A few years earlier, Sach developed the power of predicting the future in "Master Minds", not exactly the same thing but close enough. Then in 1956 the same idea was put to use in "Crashing Las Vegas". In that one, Sach 'electrifies' his brain and comes up with the ability to see numbers swimming around inside his head, so his buddy Slip (Leo Gorcey) figures they ought to be able to cash in at the gaming tables in Sin City. So with Sach 'wired for mental telegraphy' following an accidental punch in the nose in this flick, Slip decides to form the Eagle Eye Detective Agency to take advantage of this latest development. However in one of the most loosely written episodes in the pantheon of Bowery Boys films, plot elements seem to come an go at random because the mind reading angle really doesn't come into play too much as the story progresses. Nor does the business with the stolen fur coat when sultry blonde Myra Hagen (Joyce Holden) shows up at Slip's office. OK, the bad guys are in the business of stealing furs, cutting them up, then dyeing and reselling them. Seemed like a lot of trouble to me, but then again, I'm not of a criminal mind. The cover used by the fur thieves involved the Rose Hill Health Farm as a front for their operation, again, a questionable idea given the circumstances. One cool casting element in the picture was the inclusion of Myron Healey as one of the Rose Hill attendants who had a thing for Myra Hagen. Healey showed up in a whole slew of Western TV shows and movies, usually as a heavy, so seeing him here as a bit of a clueless nerd was a role I haven't seen him play before. Another surprise this time also included something Slip said, and oddly, it wasn't one of his usual malapropisms. Referring to Sach's blowing up a safe to get at a letter that Myra Hagen left with them, he says "What do you think this is, Yucca Flat"? That location is one of the country's major nuclear test regions and often cited as the most nuclear-blasted area on the face of the Earth. So after thirty one Bowery Boys movies, we actually get a cerebral comment from Slip that makes sense! And wouldn't you know it, they only had to blow up the office to do it.
The Eagle Beak Detective Agency
Private Eyes is exactly the next line of business that Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall find for themselves in their never ending search for careers. One of these days they'll find success. Chick Chandler who has to leave town abruptly sells them his detective agency which is now available. Seems like a perfect fit because Huntz Hall after getting a whack on the noggin has the ability to read minds. It comes and goes though with each blow and the way he aggravates Gorcey, Leo has to keep his temper in check. The usual clichés about private eye films is found in Private Eyes, but this one doesn't quite jell. A lot of Abbott&Costello material recycled and the climax which is in an insane asylum comes right out of the Bob Hope classic, My Favorite Brunette.