1954 Allied Artists
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters is a 1954 American comedy horror film directed by Edward Bernds and starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on June 6, 1954, by Allied Artists and is the thirty-fourth film in the series.
In the film, the Bowery Boys want to ask permission to use a vacant lot as a place for kids to play baseball. They visit the family who owns the lot, but discover that it is a dysfunctional family. It consists of a mad scientist, a self-described vampire, an enthusiast of robotics, and the owner of a carnivorous plant. Two of them wish to use the boys for brain transplantation experiments, one wants to feed them to the plant, and one wants to feed on their blood.
PLOT:
The front window of Louie's Sweet Shop is a frequent victim of the local neighborhood kids' baseball games. The Bowery Boys think that a nearby vacant lot would be perfect for the kids to play ball, and keep out of trouble. Slip and Sach travel during a heavy rainstorm to visit the owners of the lot at their home on Long Island. As it turn out, the owners, all members of the same family, are completely insane.
Dereck, a mad scientist, wants a brain for his gorilla. His brother Anton wants a brain for his robot, Gorog. Their sister Amelia needs fresh meat to give to her man-eating tree, while their niece Francine is convinced that she is a vampire. Feeling that Slip and Sach are perfect for their personal needs, the family asks the duo to spend the night. The boys soon catch on to the family's schemes, causing a frantic chase through the house. Louie, Butch, and Chuck visit the home to search for Slip and Sach, and it is not long before they too get caught up in all the madness.
THE BOWERY BOYS:
Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
David Gorcey as Chuck Anderson (Credited as David Condon)
Bennie Bartlett as Butch Williams
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
Lloyd Corrigan as Anton Gravesend
Ellen Corby as Amelia Gravesend
PRODUCTION:
This movie was inspired by Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), which originally was entitled "Abbott and Costello Meet The Monsters." "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" was their biggest hit and this movie was The Bowery Boys' biggest hit.
At least three of the characters in this script seem "inspired" by Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons of the time, collectively known as The Addams Family: Grissom, the Gravesend family manservant, is clearly similar to Lurch; Francesca, the sexy vampire, seems meant to be like Morticia; and, Ellen Corby's creepy Grandma is an awful lot like Grandma Addams.
PRESSBOOK
THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS
PRESSBOOK
