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Spooks Run Wild (1941)
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Writers:
Carl Foreman (original story and screenplay) &
Charles R. Marion (original story and screenplay) ...
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Charles R. Marion (original story and screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
24 October 1941 (USA)
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Plot:
The boys are sent to a mountain camp. Stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside...
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My Favorite East Side Kids Movie
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Bela Lugosi | ... | Nardo | |
| Leo Gorcey | ... | Muggs | |
| Bobby Jordan | ... | Danny | |
| Huntz Hall | ... | Glimpy | |
| Ernest Morrison | ... | Scruno (as Sunshine Sammy Morrison) | |
| Dave O'Brien | ... | Jeff Dixon (as David O'Brien) | |
| Dorothy Short | ... | Linda Mason | |
| David Gorcey | ... | Peewee | |
| Donald Haines | ... | Skinny | |
| Dennis Moore | ... | Dr. Von Grosch | |
| P.J. Kelly | ... | Lem Harvey (as P.J. Kelley) | |
| Angelo Rossitto | ... | Luigi | |
| Guy Wilkerson | ... | Constable Jim |
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Ghosts in the Night (USA) (working title)
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65 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
USA:Approved (PCA #7644)
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The copyright expired and was not renewed, so the film fell into "public domain", meaning that virtually anyone could copy it and sell it without having to pay royalties. That's why there are so so many shoddy, badly cut, grainy copies of it on the market, put out mainly by companies that specialize in public-domain films.
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Featured in "Planet X: (#2.6)" (2006)
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Being a fan of old "B" moves from the 1930s and 1940s, this is a real gem from one of the so-called Poverty Row studios, in this case, Monogram Studios. Some of these so-called Poverty Row films have a charm all their own. I am a fan of both Bela Lugosi on one hand and The East Side Kids on the other. The East Side Kids started off as a group called the Dead End Kids from Warner Studios and I prefer their films that they made for Monogram. Other good movies of the series are "Ghosts on the Loose" (also with Bela Lugosi as well as a young actress named Ava Gardner), "Bowery Blitzkrieg", and "Mr. Wise Guy".
Anyway, "Spooks Run Wild" is the best of the lot with fine old fashioned atmosphere (great cemetery scenes and a creepy old house), great wisecracks, and hold-on-to-your-seat suspense with a misanthropic villain called the "Monster Killer".
Great film for Holloween.
Dan Basinger