Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

bkoganbing Although the Bowery Boys just doesn't gel in many ways without Leo Gorcey still it's nice to see Huntz Hall alone in the spotlight in these last remaining Bowery Boy films that Allied Artists did. In this one Sach is hypnotized by faker hypnotist Robert Foulk and he regresses back in his mind to when he was His Majesty's tax collector and none other than Blackbeard the Pirate gives Hall a treasure map in lieu of hard cash for his back taxes. Al Capone could certainly sympathize.It wasn't Foulk though it was a pair of earrings that Foulk's gal pal come on Jane Nigh was wearing. The bit with the earrings was later used in the Road To Hong Kong to put Bob Hope under. So for Duke, Sach, and the rest it means get the earrings to get the treasure.One thing this does prove is that Horace DeBussy Jones is the same in any incarnation.

dbborroughs One of the final Bowery Boys films when the only one left was Sach.When Louie died, he was played by Leo Gorcey's dad, the desire to keep making the films went out of Gorcey and some of the others. The studio however soldiered on with Huntz HAll and brought in a few others including a new character named Duke. The films are fine but really Bowery boys.The plot has the boys land lady deciding to be regressed to a past life... wanting to prove the guy a fraud they show up at a press conference with the doctor. A challenge is laid down to prove it all as real, however instead of Duke being put under, it's Sach who regresses back to the time of Blackbeard where he ends up with a map of the treasure. Everyone thinks its a joke until they find that what Sach says pans out. Its then a race to re-hypnotize Sach and then find the treasure.Good film is a little too slow even at an hour. It's an enjoyable time killer either way.The problem is that the film really isn't a Bowery Boys film even if we do get Sach. The boys were a different make up of characters and this, while good is something else entirely.Still its worth a look if you run across it.

dougdoepke It's not surprising that the Bridey Murphy phenomenon would turn up on the silver screen, even if it's only a low-budget Bowery Boys production. In 1956, a Pueblo, CO housewife claimed to have been "regressed" under hypnosis to a previous life as an Irish farm girl, complete with Irish brogue, etc. For some reason, it caught on and became a brief national fad with all kinds of similar claims being made. Here, Sach gets regressed to a former life as a 17th century English fop, where he encounters pirate Blackbeard and his treasure. Back in modern time, the boys go after the treasure, ahead of the bad guys, they hope, while busty blonde Jane Nigh provides brassy eye candy.Aside from the predictable hi-jinks, Hall (Sach) gets to show off some real acting skills, getting to play more than just his usual buffoonish character. Rather poignant to think how many of those skills went unused once he settled into playing Sach. (An interview with him would be interesting.) Clements does okay as Gorcey's replacement, but Gorcey really makes a better tough-talking Moe (The Three Stooges) to Sach's ever-befuddled Curley. All in all— the 60-minutes provides something of a departure for both the plot and and actor Hall, but with no more chuckles than usual.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" get involved with a phony regression back to an other lifetime parlor act when their sweet Irish landlady Kate Kelly decides to get a lifetime or pre-lifetime reading, for $200,00, from shyster hypnotist and quack doctor Simon Nobel.Deciding to expose this fraud to the public Duke and the boys crashed a news conference held by Dr. Nobel to expose him by volunteering to be hypnotized by the scoundrel. As it turns out it's Sach not Duke who ended up getting both hypnotized and regressed by Dr. Nobel to another lifetime. Dr.Nobel regressed Sach back to American Colonieal times in 1682 as tax collector for the English Crown Algy Winkle who get stuck in a local saloon as he's trying to collect back taxes from the local townspeople! After him beating the pants off Blackbeard the Pirate in a bean counting game Algy, or Sach in his previous incarnating, ended up winning Blackbeard's treasure map revealing where he hid millions of gold and jewelry from his latest pirate sea looting adventure.At first thinking all this regression talk on Sach's part is nothing but BS Duke and the boys check out Sach's story in the local library's historical archives and find out that it's all true! There in fact was an Algy Winkle tax collector back in the 17th Century and there also was a Blackbeard the Pirate back then as well! And even more astounding Blackbeard did in fact hide a shipload of gold silver and jewels just like Sach said that has never been recovered with Sach or Algy being the only one, by memorizing Blackbeards treasure map, who knows where the treasure is buried or hidden!***SPOILERS*** Nothing new here with the "Bowery Boys" minus their leader Slip Mahoney doing the right thing in exposing a fraud, Dr.Nobel, who as it turned out really had something going for him. Finding out about Blackbeard's hidden treasure Dr.Nobel and his hoods try to re-hypnotize Sach only to have him stay awake or go back farther in time, back to Roman times, then the Doc wants him to. It's almost by accident that the boys find out where the treasure is hidden: In a cave on the banks of the Hudson River. The "Bowery Boys" after dispatching Dr.Nobel and his hoods, with the famous routine #5, at the cave site to their surprised find out that the treasure wasn't that of Blackbeards at all! It in fact was the results of a Jewel robbery that took place not some 250 years ago in 1682 on the high seas but one that took place just six weeks ago in 1957 in the New York City Jewel & diamond district!