Decades before John Travolta and Nicolas Cage impersonated each other in Face/Off, this movie hosted a similar meeting-of-the-minds between Glenn Strange (cinema's second-best Frankenstein monster) and Huntz Hall (cinema's second-best Bowery Boy). Huntz gets a toothache that gives him the power to predict the future. A mad scientist (Alan Napier, the 1966 Alfred the Butler) plots to fuse his mind with that of a hulking monster. The big draw here is seeing hulking Glenn Strange affect the mannerisms of Huntz Hall, which is more than enough for me.

Director Jean Yarbrough was an old hand at silly comedy (he was one of Abbott & Costello's house directors) and low-budget horror (The Devil Bat, She-Wolf of London, et al.), and you can find The Yarbrough Touch™ in all the scenes where the boys run around the spooky basement of a spooky house with everyone lit ominously from below.

Probably the best of the Bowery Boys encounters with horror. Unlike their two movies with Lugosi, which are the standard haunted house shenanigans, this has a mad scientist and a genuine monster, some sort of ape man. This seems to trying to ride the coattails of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and they got Glenn Strange to play the ape man. Alan Napier’s mad scientist is interesting in that he’s played straight as a genuine threat, and we have Val Lewton regular Skelton Knaggs as one of his assistants. How funny you find it will depend on how you like old style humor, but I do so I did. Also has one of the most unique monster fights in history: a short man disguised as a haunted knight suit and Huntz Hall with the mind of the ape man.

Here the Bowery Boys go supernatural with Huntz Hall being able to tell the future when high on sugar. The problem is that a mad scientist wants his brain for his hairy Frankenstein monster called Atlas. In the transformation you have Huntz act as a monster and Atlas the monster (aka Glenn Strange) act like Huntz. So if you ever wanted to see a group of dimwits play around with Dr. Frankenstein scientific equipment, you'll love this.

a fun time had by all! didn't know who the bowery boys were but it seems they're very cool dudes. loved atlas the monster, sad that he isn't an iconic movie monster™! 

(this was a movie for a "halloween night" but it's only like 50% halloween)

A lacklustre Bowery Boys film that's all about a newly psychic Sach being kidnapped and used in an experiment that splits his consciousness with that of a murderous beast. You get more plot than the averave BB film but less laughs, and Sach being the focal point isn't good.

Incredible premise, I'd say it's sufficiently exploited throughout an hour of comedy of misunderstandings with experiments, monsters and candy. I regret not having saved it for Halloween.
Even Im not a big fan of overanalyzing, I think the story of human exploitation is in almost every frame, isn't it?
Although the really important thing is that it's silly funny.

Silly but charming Abbot and Costello-style monster comedy about a guy who becomes clairvoyant when he's having a toothache, and the mad scientist who tries to swap his brain with that of his experimental caveman guy (?). It's so funny and weird to me in the year 2021 that there used to be this stereotype of scientists as these power-hungry monomaniacs who needed constant monitoring to ensure they didn't try to take over the world! It seems like there was a period of time where this was one of only three or four horror plots we got to see: it was basically mad scientists, haunted houses, or explorations of the unknown for at LEAST a decade. Anyway this is amusing if you don't think too hard about it!

Almost looks like a lower tier Universal film, that’s high praise for a Monogram pictures movie. I kind of like Huntz Hall, I like his wackiness, I like it whenever anyone get comedy scared and I liked that it was 64 minutes. Glenn Strange does a good impression of Huntz Hall in this, all the teenagers in this are played by 40 year olds, perfect.

The premise is more interesting than your typical Bowery Boys picture, but Master Minds is still limited by the one-dimensional characters and an overall lack of artistry. That's not surprising when you consider that Monogram cranked out 3 or 4 of these films a year for nearly two decades. This one was obviously inspired by the success of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, which also featured Glenn Strange as the monster. There are a handful of clever jokes (eg, some of Huntz Hall's prognostications) and plenty of Leo Gorcey's signature malapropisms, but the laughs are few and far between.

The 16th film in the Bowery Boys series sees Huntz Hall as Sach gaining the ability to see into the future whenever his tooth aches which Leo Gorcey as Slip exploits for monetary gain.

A mad scientist mistakenly believes Sach is a genius and wants his brain for his half ape/half human monster played by frequent Frankenstein's monster actor Glenn Strange.

This is one of the best in the series I've watched so far. Seeing Glenn Strange imitate Hall's mannerisms with a dubbed Hall voice was quite hilarious and allowed him to show off some rarely seen comedic chops.

This was also early enough that it still featured standout Bowery Boys cast members such as my favourite William Benedict, Gabriel Dell and Bernard Gorcey. A must watch for fans of the team and series.