Ghosts on the Loose

thumb Ghosts on the Loose (known as Ghosts in the Night in the UK) is a 1943 film about the East Side Kids who try to fix up a haunted house. Directed by William Beaudine. Written by Kenneth Higgins. You'll yell with glee when these happy-go-lucky hooligans invade the shivery domain of the Man of a Thousand Horrors! It's Chill-arious!  (taglines) Mugs I'm gonna send you to an optimist and have your eyes examined. You two fellas start to put up the wallpaper over dere, and Rocky and Danny you put up the coitains and drapes - and get 'em nice and cylindrical. There's a lot o' intimidatin' evidence in that house. The best idea you can get is not to get any more ideas! Remind me when we get back to town to give you the Iron Cross for bravery - right over the skull. Glimpy Hey, Mugs, why can't I sing in dat quartet? I used to sing in a quartet wit' six members. I can sing those fortissimos aloud too. Dialogue Mugs: [reading the card on the wreath of flowers the boys brought in] "In loving memory to Louie the Lug from the gang. We didn't mean to shoot you, Louie, honest." Where did you get that? Stash: W-w-w on a street. Scruno: Yeah, o-on a truck. Benny: It fell off. Mugs: You know that's sacrelirious? Scruno: No kiddin'? Mugs: Take it back! You guys think I've no conscience. Can you imagine a thing like...? Hey, wait a minute. Come here. I don't suppose it would be any more sacrelirious if we brought it back AFTER the weddin'. Put it in the parlor. Jack: [dejected, sitting on a coach next to Betty, in a quarantined room, surrounded by the East Side Kids] What a honeymoon. Mugs: [to Glimpy] Y'always gotta do everything the hard way. Everybody else gets plain, ordinary, common measles. So, you gotta go out and dig up German measles. [Glimpy's face is covered in Swastikas] Glimpy: Who are you pickin' on me for? Did I know dem guys were Nazis? Mugs: You really think the place looks pretty nice, huh? Jack: Oh, it's fine, Mugs. Glimpy: Yeah. It could look better with some of them pictures on the wall, those, uh, paintings, those moralls. Mugs: Not moralls, morales! Jack: Look, uh, you guys mean, uh, murals? Mugs: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. He threw me off, you know. He's dumb sometimes. Mugs: What's a matter wid you? Dat's just an echo. Bruno: [a voice] Just an echo. Mugs: See dat? What I tell ya? Dere's nuttin' to be scared of. Emil: [a second voice] That's what YOU think. Mugs: Well, can you picture dat? I must be havin' optical delusions. Lieutenant: What's the matter? Mugs: Well, there was a printin' press here ten minutes ago. Lieutenant: Ah, just got up and walked away, eh? Glimpy: Well, if ink can run, I guess a printing press can walk. Mugs: Wow, this is really nice! Lamps, drapes, books, everything. I wonder why he bought that old house next door instead of this one? Glimpy: I guess there wasn't enough room in the yard for a Victory Garden. Mugs: Why don't you use some diplomacy? Glimpy: I got my diploma. I graduated from school. Mugs: What did you graduate? Kindergarten? Glimpy: Oh, I skipped Kindergarten. I was too old. Mugs: [to Jack] We was decoratin' that house. Glimpy: Yeah, we thought it was yours. Mugs: We found a printin' press with a lot of Nazi propaganda. Glimpy: Yeah, we thought it was yours. Mugs: So, we moved it over here. Glimpy: Yeah, then we found out that was yours. Mugs: So, we moved it back again. Jack: Nazi propaganda? Mugs: Sure! Jack: So, that's why they didn't want us to come out here. Why didn't you call the police? Glimpy: We thought it was yours! Jack: Is there a phone next door? Mugs: Yeah, but that ain't yours. Taglines You'll yell with glee when these happy-go-lucky hooligans invade the shivery domain of the Man of a Thousand Horrors! It's Chill-arious! The EAST SIDE KIDS vs. the Man of a THOUSAND HORRORS! Cast Leo Gorcey — Mugs Huntz Hall — Glimpy Bela Lugosi — Emil Ava Gardner — Betty Rick Vallin — Jack Bobby Jordan — Danny Sammy Morrison — Scruno Billy Benedict — Benny (a.k.a. Skinny) Stanley Clements — Stash Minerva Urecal — Hilda Wheeler Oakman — Tony External links 0035939 Ghosts on the Loose Category:1943 American films Category:Haunted house films Category:Comedy horror films Category:American horror films Category:1943 English-language films Category:Films about weddings Category:Films directed by William Beaudine