Hard Boiled Mahoney

"They're tip-top snoopers in the tip-toe racket!"

May 10 1947 Approved 1h 3m
Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.

Plot

The Bowery Boys---Slip , Sach, Bobby, Gabe, Whitey, and Chuck---accidentally enter the detective business with the disappearance of a beautiful girl, Eleanor Williams, as their first case to solve. They are retained by Selena, who says she is the missing girl's sister. The disappearance is doubly puzzling because Eleanor has just learned that her long-lost husband, Tom Williams, is returning from South America. Slip and Company trace Eleanor to the apartment of Dr. Rolfe Carter, to whom she first went when Tom was reported missing three years earlier. Slip witnesses the doctor's murder, but does not know who fired the fatal shot. Slip and his friends learn that Dr. Carter was a pseudo-psychic, who was into blackmailing his clients. He is linked with syndicate-chief Armand. The latter, and his henchman, knowing that Slip has information regarding Carter's murder, set out to kill the boys.

Written by

Cy Endfield, Edmond Seward, Tim Ryan

Directed by

William Beaudine

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
384
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA