Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

JohnHowardReid Beautifully photographed by Marcel Le Picard, but otherwise this one comes across as a very routine Bowery Boys entry. As usual, at this stage of the series, we are treated to a massive amount of weak jokes and lots of other time-wasting dialogue. Leo Gorcey is forced to carry much of the film, and he does this duty very poorly by making his tepid material even more wearisome by his deliberately heavy-handed approach. Fortunately, the other players are a bit more skillful. In fact, it's real nice – if a little disheartening – to see people we really like such as Ted de Corsia and Allen Jenkins reduced to accepting roles in a "B" picture like this one. Unfortunately, William Beaudine's direction doesn't help much. He tends to make tepid material even more wearisome by his generally heavy-handed approach.

JoeKarlosi In this Bowery Boys comedy we have little Louie Dumbrowsky (Bernard Gorcey) looking to collect an outstanding debt from a down-on-his-luck stable owner, so Slip and Sach (Leo Gorcey/Huntz Hall) arrange a meeting to make the pickup for him. When the boys meet the man, he makes them an offer to take "My Girl" as settlement instead of cash. At first the boys think My Girl is the man's attractive daughter, but quickly realize it's a horse. Louie is none too pleased when they return, but it turns out that this animal is a class A race horse, and it isn't long before a group of crooked gamblers try to get their greedy hands on her. The plot is typical silly comedy fodder, and a lot of running time milks the same gag of mistaking one horse for another, but it's zany enough to make this a moderate pleaser for Bowery Boys fans. **1/2 out of ****

wes-connors To cancel a debt owed sweet shop owner Bernard Gorcey (as Louis "Louie" Xavier Dumbrowsky), "The Bowery Boys" leader Leo Gorcey (as Slip Mahoney) and sidekick Huntz Hall (as Sach Jones) agree to take "My Girl" off the hands of series writer Tim Ryan (as Flynn). At first, they think "My Girl" is Mr. Ryan's fetching daughter, but she's really a horse. "My Girl" rides into residence with Bowery pals William "Billy" Benedict (as Whitey), David "Condon" Gorcey (as Chuck), and Benny "Bennie" Bartlett (as Butch).Then, gangster Allen Jenkins (as Weepin' Willie) and others get interested in horse racing with "My Girl". Mr. Hall appears in "black-face" make-up and Mr. Gorcey appears to have been over-indulging in alcohol. But, "Crazy Over Horses" is most notable for being the last appearance of Mr. Benedict as a "Bowery Boy" trying to get a line in edgewise. It proved to be a good time to exit, as the series was on a downward spiral. It's also the first time little brother David Gorcey is billed as "David Condon" in the credits.*** Crazy Over Horses (11/18/51) William Beaudine ~ Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Tim Ryan

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" get themselves into the horse racing business when they try to collect $250.00 from a Mr.Flynn who loaned if to sweet shop owner Louie Dumbrowsky and hasn't paid it back for some two years. Flynn who's business at his Sunnybrook Hunting and Riding Club has hit hard times only has this nag "My Girl" to use as collateral and trades it in for the $250.00 that he owes Louie.As thing are soon to turn out "My Girl" is a really fast filly whom race track fixer Randall is planning to switch with the filly "Tarzana" as a ringer, who in all her races never finished better then last, in the next race she's to run. With "Tarzana" expected to go off at odds of at least 100 to 1 it's a sure thing for Randell and his boys Duke & Weepin Willie are to score a big payday with what should be the odds on favorite "My Girl" finishing first as the broken down 100 to 1 nag "Tarzana".As you would expect in a "Bowery Boys" movie things don't exactly work out as planned by both the "Bowery Boys" and the Randall mob. There's a number of switches of both "Tarzana" and "My Girl" during the movie that makes it almost impossible,in both fillies looking like identical twins, to tell who's who in the stable or on the racetrack. In the end it's "My Girl" running as "My Girl" with the Randall mob betting against her in thinking that she's Tarzana who saves the day by winning the big race with that at least the 150 pound dead-weight and inexperienced as a jockey Sach, using a walkie talkie to communicate with his friend Slip, riding her to victory. It would have been hard enough for "My Girl" to win the race with an Eddie Arcaro or Willie Shoemaker, weighing under 115 pounds, on board but with the both nutty and 150 pounds Sach riding her that's a feat that's even beyond miraculous!