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Ghosts on the Loose

1943 film by William Beaudine

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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

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 edit

  • 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!

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