The Bowery Boys wreak havoc in England in this so-so entry in the series (the thirtieth!). The flimsy plot has Sach finding out he's related to an earl, so he and the fellas head to London. The plots to these things always seem to revolve around Sach. Anyway, it's basically like the one where they hung out with hillbillies except the gags are changed to fit the new locale. Still another "fish out of water" story. Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall are both in fine form doing what they do. Bennie Bartlett and David Gorcey prop up scenery (as usual). Bernard Gorcey is fun as Louie the Sweet Shop owner, an unofficial Bowery Boy himself and the scene stealer in many of these films. It's really not a great movie but it is fun in spots. Not one of my favorites.

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.

***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" get the startling news from British solicitor Allison J. Higby, at Louie Dumbrowsky's Sweet Shop in the Bowery that one of their illustrious members Sach or Horace Dumbussy Jones, as he's legally known as, is related to the filthy rich English Earl of Walsingham! It turns out that this guy-the Earl-is loaded to the gills owning coal mines in Wessex textile mills in Essex an exclusive sporting lodge, that the British Royal Family members attends annually, in Sussex and to round things off is part owner of an NBA Basketball team in Phoenix!Getting on the first boat sailing for jolly old England the boys, Slip Sach Butch & Chuck, together with Louie Dumbrowsky who was a stowaway, by getting himself smashed at the going away party and forgetting to leave the boat, on board finally get to Walsingham Castel only to find out that the Earl's, who's on his deathbed, fortune is to be divided among his greedy relatives who in fact, by slipping poison in his medication, are tying to murder him. Sach for his part brings the Earl back to health by substituting his "medication" with ice cream and cookies that makes his relatives mad as hell. So mad that they plan to do Sach as well as the Earl in before he changes his will and leaves everything, the sporting lodge coal mines textile mills and basketball team, over to Sach!***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" go into action foiling the Earl of Walsingham's relatives from murdering him but the Earl now on his feet and ready for action, due to Sach treating him, does a pretty good job himself with his Olympic caliber fencing skills. The sad thing about all this is in the end when all the dust is cleared and the Earl safely out of harms way it turns out that Sach is not the Horace Dembussy Jones who's related to him. That's a guy named Jones in far off Australia! And what do you think Sach & the "Bowery Boys" together with Louie get for all the trouble they went through in saving the Earl's life from the grateful Earl, who's worth billions, himself? A measly 1,000 pound sterling which isn't even pocket change for him! That lousy and ungrateful cheapskate!

Possible good fortune knocks on the door of Louie's Sweet Shop on the Bowery where four guys who every now and then have jobs are known to hang out. It seems as though a fellow with the high sounding moniker of Horace DeBussy Jones might actually rate that kind of a name. He could be the long lost descendant of a collateral branch of the Earl of Walsingham's family. And the current Earl is not doing all that well health wise.Instead of just Huntz Hall coming over the whole gang departs and the sight of them seems to perk the old Earl played by Walter Kingsford up. They've been slowly poisoning him in the hopes of at least one of them being made his heir. But Kingsford is actually charmed by the moronic clowning of The Bowery Boys and he goes off the medicines the relatives have him on and starts getting a little color back in his cheeks.The relatives are played by Norma Varden, Angela Greene, William Cottrell, John Dodsworth, and Rex Evans and they're not happy about their cousin from across the pond to say the least. It might further their interests if Kingsford got more suddenly dispatched and the Bowery Boys blamed for it.The Bowery Boys recycle a lot of material from other films and use it in their's. The characters of Walsingham family come from just about every film with an English setting you can name. Still the results here aren't too bad. Huntz Hall's battle with a stuffed fox that may still have some life in it is a classic.This Bowery Boys film did not have all that much of Leo Gorcey and his original language malapropisms. Huntz Hall has center stage here and if you are fans of his, this film is for you.