Movies Similar to Live Wires

Bowery to Bagdad(1955)

The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.

Bowery Bombshell(1946)

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.

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Bowery Buckaroos(1947)

The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.

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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters(1954)

Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire

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Angels' Alley(1948)

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.

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Jinx Money(1948)

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.

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Mr. Hex(1946)

Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.

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Up In Smoke(1957)

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.

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News Hounds(1947)

Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.

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Spook Busters(1946)

The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.

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Jalopy(1953)

Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.

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Loose in London(1953)

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.

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Triple Trouble(1950)

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

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Hot Shots(1956)

Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.

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Spy Chasers(1955)

Slip and the gang foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania.

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Bowery Battalion(1951)

Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

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Blues Busters(1950)

The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.

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Fighting Trouble(1956)

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.

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Feudin' Fools(1952)

Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers.

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Jail Busters(1955)

Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story.

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