The Gas House Kids in Hollywood

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Benny Bartlett, Tommy Bond, Jan Bryant, Milton Parsons, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Michael Whalen, and Rudy Wissler in The Gas House Kids in Hollywood (1947)

The Gas House Kids go to Hollywood, where they become entangled with a mad scientist while attempting to find a lost treasure in a haunted house.The Gas House Kids go to Hollywood, where they become entangled with a mad scientist while attempting to find a lost treasure in a haunted house.The Gas House Kids go to Hollywood, where they become entangled with a mad scientist while attempting to find a lost treasure in a haunted house.

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In this third entry in the "Gas House Kids" series, P.R.C. attempted to boost the series by producing a tried and true genre, the "scare comedy." This would be the final "Gas House Kids" film.

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Edited into The Our Gang Story (1994)

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4/10

A rather routine comedy with lots of overacting and overage "kids"

GAS HOUSE KIDS IN Hollywood is another example of the 'kid gang' genre of films that were popular with audiences during the 1940s. Other examples include the Bowery Boys, the East Side Kids, and of course the earlier Our Gang adventures. The Gas House Kids only had a trilogy of outings, and there were only four of them, but they provide fitful if undistinguished amusement.

The lightweight story in this film sees the quartet of youths heading to Hollywood to meet a star of the screen, popular detective actor Lance Carter. Chief among them is the overage 'Alfalfa', whose singing in the car goes on way too long and threatens the eardrums of any sane viewer. As is the usual with such films, the kids meet a mad scientist (an on-form Milton Parsons) and wind up at his house, where a criminal gang are on the prowl.

There's a lot of lurking around in corridors and stuff involving secret passageways and the like; in fact, the story is almost exactly the same as GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE, a Bela Lugosi-starrer I watched the day before. The comedy is pretty pitiful and the quality of the acting is little better. The overage child actors mug the situation for all their worth while the back-and-forth nature of the plotting goes on and on, dragging this out to endless length. It's only a film for die-hard fans of the genre, if there are any...