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The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
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There's fun in this new type of horror picture...fun for everybody, and everybody loads of fun! (original poster) more
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A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. full summary | add synopsis
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(Complete credited cast) | Boris Karloff | ... | Prof. Nathaniel Billings |
 | Peter Lorre | ... | Dr. Arthur Lorentz |
 | Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom | ... | Maxie, the Powder Puff Salesman (as 'Slapsie' Maxie Rosenbloom) |
| Larry Parks | ... | Bill Layden |
| Jeff Donnell | ... | Winnie Slade (as Miss Jeff Donnell) |
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66 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #8640)
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This is the second of four film teamings of Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre, all of them comedies. Others were You'll Find Out (1940), The Raven (1963) and The Comedy of Terrors (1963).
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Revealing mistakes: Jeff Donnell's Winnie slips and calls Peter Lorre “Professor Lorre”, not Lorenz, and it remains in the film.
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Dr. Lorenz:
If he is a choreographer, then I am Pavlova.
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References Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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The Boogie Man Will Get You: 6 out of 10: If Ma and Pa Kettle ever did Arsenic and Old Lace it would be this movie. Very very silly and occasionally quite funny the Boogie Man has a couple of big faults. The supporting cast is mixed at best and the ending is a mess.
It also has two great assets, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. Karloff is spot on as the bumbling well meaning murdering scientist. Whose experiments on traveling salesman to create super-soldiers for the war effort are both well meaning and quite homicidal.
Peter Lorre is hilarious as the Mayor, Police Chief, Undertaker, Notary, excreta. He dresses in a three piece suit with a Siamese kitten in his pocket to which he coos in German.
Watching these two together is pure entertainment and certainly worth a viewing. The rest of the movie is light, frothy, derivative, and occasionally irritating. Just watch the stars at work and forget the rest.