MartinHafer The Bowery Boys films were mindless entertainment. This is NOT meant as a criticism--they were quickly made and interesting B-movies with very modest pretenses. I mention this because you shouldn't expect a film that you'd find on a disc from The Criterion Collection or at a fancy film festival--they were popular entertainment for the masses. Because of that, I cut their films a lot of slack and realize they aren't 'high art'!"Loose in London" is one of the later films from the Boys. Because of that Sach and Slip are looking practically geriatric (they're hardly boys any more) and all the familiar old members of the gang have long since disappeared. It's simply the Sach and Slip show.The film begins with Sach (Huntz Hall) learning that a very, very distant relative in Britain wants to see him. Once there, the gang learn that the old man plans on leaving his fortune to someone...but hasn't yet decided. As for Sach's other family members, they've decided...Sach must die because he looks like the likely candidate because the Uncle seems to like him a lot! What follows is predictable and a nice time-passer. And, as usual, they manage to escape death...though you'd sure think these idiots would be the FIRST to die in real life!Nothing special, nothing bad here. The usual blend of slapstick and laughs and nothing more.

mark.waltz Everything happens to Sach, whether gaining a singing voice like Perry Como, becoming both professional boxers and college football heroes, and gaining the ability to see the future. Of course, they are all for brief periods of time, each miraculous happening for Sach forgotten by the beginning of the next film. Here, Hubtz Hall's Sach gains, not only a full knowledge of British history (disproving Slip's claim about King Henry V8) but a claim to a British estate as well. Of course, a Bowery Boy spouting historical knowledge is still a mug, not a proper English lord. Sach and the boys (and Louie of course....) find themselves out of their element in dealing with both the upper-crust, their servants and several common folk whose dialects they can't comprehend even though it is in the same language.Don't underestimate the craftiness of the British nobility with such esteemed British character actors such as Walter Kingsford as the family patriarch, John Dodsworth and Norma Varden as scheming older members of the family and pretty Angela Greene as a relative willing to do anything to discredit this interloper. The result is a sort of reverse "Pygmalion" with Sach giving a twist to Eliza Doolittle. "Downton Abbey" may have had its share of strange visitors, but these New Yorkers certainly takes the Shepard's pie.

Leslie Howard Adams And, they nor anybody else in this film saw London or England during its six-day production.As fate, and the writers, would have it, word comes to the Bowery that titled, great, great granduncle of Horace Debussy Jones (Huntz Hall), better known as Sach, is near death and has provided transportation to summon relatives from around the world. Sach and the Bowery Boys, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey), Butch Williams (Bennie Bartlett), Chuck Anderson (David Gorcey as David Condon)and Soda Shoppe owner Louie Dumbrowsky (Bernard Gorcey), trade Sach's pre-paid first class ticket for lesser (much lesser) accommodations and embark for ye olde London towne.There, they find the old man, the Earl of Walsingham (Walter Kingsford) already surrounded by sinister Sir Edgar Whipsnade (John Dodsworth); Reggie (William Cottrell), the obligatory Fop; the spinster Aunt Agatha (Norma Varden); the young and seductive Lady Marcia (the young and seductive Angela Greene), moronic Cousin Herbert (Rex Evans), and Hoskins (James Logan), the Butler.They, of course,are assembled in a plot to slowly poison the old Earl and to get rid of Sach and his pals.No giveaway to lay their chances at slim-to-none.

Ramar Fair is fair Oliver came to America to make movies, so America sent its finest...Mr. Huntz Hall to England.