Ghosts on the Loose

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