Bowery Boys Meet Frankenstein

In 1948 Universal Pictures struck boxoffice paydirt with the inspired idea of transplanting Lou Costello's brain in Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein monster. Just one year later at the low-rent Monogram Pictures, their copycat writers conspired to exchange Mr. Strange's brain with Huntz Hall. The downward trend had, indeed, reached a freefall when Glenn Strange first met Abbott & Costello and wound up encountering the Bowery Boys in very short order! The occasion did, however, afford Glenn the opportunity of delivering the single greatest comic (!) performance of his lifetime when, as the hirsute gorilla-man "Atlas", he affects a brilliant pantomine of Huntz Hall as "Sach" -- replete with all the mincing steps and fey gestures! Thanks to his status as the reigning cover boy in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, Glenn Strange's visage holds the distinction of probably usurping Boris Karloff as the iconic image of Frankenstein to a generation of "Monster Kids" of the 1960's!
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[galileo1957]

God I remember waking up real early every Saturday morning to watch the Bowery Boys... I loved 'em. Bowery Boys early in the morning and Charlie Chan at night on the Late Late Show.

[misharyutubbee]

The Bowery Boys meet Sam, the bartender from Gunsmoke! Miss Kitty would put a stop to this...

[zyxquark]

@jlovebirch Well, this may seem hard to believe, but I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma and every sunday morning at eleven they showed the bowery boys. When I was about in the fourth grade I thought they were the greatest entertainment known to man.

[jlovebirch]

@1952kid -- In the NYC area in the 60s and early 70s on Sunday and often Sat and Sun around noon, channel 5 had the East Side Kids and Bowery Boys nearly every weekend. Those and all the classic 30s-50s comedies, sci-fi, and horror films and shows that you can't see today, despite having 200 cable channels, makes me glad I grew up in the pre-cable era.

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[crystalheart9]

When I was a kid I looked forward to The Bowery Boys on Saturday afternoon TV.

Love the Bowery Boys!

[TheBookWorm1718]

@galileo1957 That's funny, in the past year they were on every Saturday morning on TCM too!

[dltanner99]

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[1952kid]

In NYC, im not sure if it was SAT or Sun ,afternoon as i remember. if it was raining outside , it was all day TV , Tarzan , Laural and Hardy , Abbott and Costello movies . Man , those were great times , we were just to young to know it .

[grapper6676]

wOW

I never saw that one.

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