The first Bowery Boys movie made without Leo Gorcey. The series was renamed "Huntz Hall and the Bowery Boys".
Leo Gorcey was fired from the last film, Crashing Las Vegas (1956) for being intoxicated. The Boys contract had seven more films to make. Huntz Hall assumed that the series would end, but the basic idea was reworked. Bernard Gorcey (Leo's Dad) had passed away. Leo walked out on negotiations with the studio. The usual faces are gone. Stanley Clements replaced Leo in the sense that he was teamed with Hall and the films were under the banner of the Bowery Boys, but that's where it ends. Clements played a suited adult and Hall was now a man. These last seven films were like detective films or who done its.
This film marks the first Bowery Boys film without Leo Gorcey, and the first with the new format. Fans regard these last seven films as not being true Bowery Boys movies.
The 42nd of 48 Bowery Boys movies released from 1946 to 1958.
First appearance of Stanislaus "Duke" Covelske played by Stanley Clements. He had appeared in an earlier incarnation of the Bowery Boys - the East Side Kids - as "Stash", beginning with Smart Alecks (1942).