Unbeknownst to Sach, the people who hired him are international smugglers, who have hidden some diamonds under some false fur on Gloria.

Inspector Herbert Saunders, a senior detective of Scotland Yard, accuses Sach and his gang of being the smugglers.

After producer Ben Schwalb moved on to other projects, the studio decided to cancel the series altogether, but Huntz Hall still had two films remaining on his contract.

It was a sudden, rushed ending for the unusually long-running series: both Up in Smoke and On the Make (released as In the Money) were filmed back-to-back in late August and early September of 1957.

[2] Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume Four" on August 26, 2014.