Sunday, August 21, 2011

Spooks Run Wild 1941



Wikipedia: “Spooks Run Wild is a 1941 film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series, starring Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Bobby Jordan. Released in 1941, it was directed by Phil Rosen, in his first and only outing in the series, and produced by Sam Katzman (under the company name Banner Pictures). It is based on an original script by Carl Foreman and Charles R. Marion.”



"The East Side Kids are sent to a mountain camp. Stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside so they sneak out at night to investigate. Peewee gets shot by a grave-digger and they are forced to seek aid at an old mansion. The owner of the mansion (Lugosi), insists that the boys spend the night. After seeing PeeWee walk around the house in a trance, the boys decide that the man turned him into a zombie. They gang up on him and tie him up. The nurse at the boys camp (Dorothy Short) sets out to find the missing boys with Von Grosch (Dennis Moore), who has has some mysterious behaviors of his own."



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